Poems about Poetry
As with Recitation and The Loss of a Kuhi
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
this thieving of love
tightrope against what it means –
to visit the past
who is good; who wrong?
which brittle, yellowing build?
of old, bluing tarpaulin?
uniform as points, squares, lined
instincts and numbers primed too
quiet eyes like dark opal
their squircle an open seat
under chestnut shade
as with basho on his mat
there he lays, small, crouched
under a low-lying cave
its long, empty lake
praetoria of ruins gone
fingers curled into his palm
unfurling, unclenched –
tired hope for newer days
Qarrtsiluni
Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A few random poems:
- Sonnet CXXXIX by William Shakespeare
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- Владимир Британишский – Не поселятся ли олени
- Torn Shades by Thomas Lux
- June Dreams, In January by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь автомобиль
- On Messrs Hussey and Coffin by Phillis Wheatley
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Sher Afzul
- In Midas’ Country by Sylvia Plath
- Наум Коржавин – Подмосковная платформа в апреле
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
- Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
- CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
- Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
- Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
- Awakening by mike yuan
- At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
- Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
- Apologize by Miraj Patel
- Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
- A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
- 19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Leopard by Stanley Wilkin
- YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
- Woman Work by Maya Angelou
- When You Come by Maya Angelou
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