by Alex Gross
This is a question to teachers.
Why does everyone make kids
Apologize to other kids?
It doesn’t make sense if you consider it.
If I am little Ally, and I pushed little Timmy
You make me apologize; you don’t punish me.
I’m not sorry. Don’t tell me to be
Sincere. I can’t. It’s just not true.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2011 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Christopher Okigbo – Looking Back at His Short-lived Life and Taking Stock of His Poetic Legacy
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб с голодом справиться и с разрухой-дурой (Главполитпросвет)
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- Any Soul That Drank the Nectar by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot
- Sonet 39 by William Alexander
- Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
- The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
- Moment’s Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Song IX: Ho Ye Who Seek Saving by William Morris
- Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
