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:
- Нина Воронель – Чтоб спастись от проклятого невезенья
- The Lady’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton :
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- Priorities of Life and Death
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
- Николай Карамзин – Истина
- In The Forest by Sarojini Naidu
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- How to Survive After Losing a Loved One
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бивак
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Samson Agonistes poem – John Milton poems
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
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
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