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:
- Владимир Набоков – Шахматный конь
- Not A Star
- Orlando Furioso Canto 18 by Ludovico Ariosto
- To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- An Exiles Farewell
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Synge’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- Nature’s song for the children by Raj Arumugam
- Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes
- Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Сейчас беднее нас нет… (РОСТА №742)
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- The Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend by William Shakespeare
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 Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
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