Poems about Poetry
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by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
He kicked off his sandals, walked
barefoot into the kitchen.
“I want to believe you. Will you let me?”
The moon went blue, strange and grey.
~
I don’t feel safe in this world.
Like their lyric poet,
I write – sharp tool, voice hollow in a creek:
“Was it a good death for the animal?”
~
Strictly entre nous, both chairs collapse,
one teak and mulberry find.
Between you and me, you and I –
where’s the ochre corridor? Take us?
Nervous Breakdown
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A few random poems:
- Вера Звягинцева – Пойдёте пешком на кладбище
- Как хочу я в День влюбленных
- Desire by Samuel Coleridge
- Олег Бундур – Для чего бывает день
- A Welcome by William Browne
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
- Death of the Legend by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- Excerpt – “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Roald Dahl
- Огюст Барбье – Чимароза
- We are Africa by Timileyin Gabriel Olajuwon
- Pax Britannica poem – Alfred Austin
- Rain Falls
- Robert Burns: On A Henpecked Country Squire:
- do you believe in always by Steve Troyanovich
- Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works