An Invitation
An Invitation Dear Mouse, The cat first wrote the heading of the letter, And then continued You are most cordially invited To the cocktail party, and then still be better We’ll have fondue and crackers Oh dear, you must excited! And then we’ll be heading for beheading Right at the house My dear mouse! R.S.V.P. […]
Poets
Poets This growing section contains notes of biographical nature. These are extra brief biographies of poets. These notes are used in the so-called author boxes below the author’s avatar and, when at least partially complete, they will appear as a separate page. C Crowley, English Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was an English poet and satanist, […]
Nikolai Gumilev –
Agamemnon’s Warrior by Nikolai Gumilev A queer and fearful question is tight, Oppresses my soul and tosses: Can one be alive if Atreus has died — Has died on a bed of roses. All that we dreamed of and everywhere praised, All our longing and fear — Were fully reflected in those calm eyes, As […]
The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel T The Eolian Harp BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside our Cot, our Cot o’ergrown With white-flowered Jasmin, and the broad-leaved Myrtle, (Meet emblems they of Innocence and Love!) And watch the clouds, […]
William Henry Davies
Biography of W.H. Davies Poems by William Henry Davies Poetry by subject Poems by author and category Parallel translations, the parallel world of translating poetry Home Poetry in Russian (you’d have to select Russian in the language switch area, otherwise you won’t be able to read poems in Russian)
A Sure Sign by Georgi Ladonshchikov
Edited, unrhymed translation: © Fledermaus, Poetry Monster, 2021 The wind is chasing the clouds, The wind is moaning in downpipes The rain is slanting, spreading cold Knocking on the window glass. There are puddles on the roads And they, too, wince from the cold, Sad rooks. Are hiding under the canopy That’s a sure sign, […]
Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
Unrhymed edited translation My little stars above are so clear and high! What do you keep in yourself, what do you hide? Stars that conceal the deepest of thoughts, By what power do you captivate our soul? Numerous tightly crowded little stars! What is the secret of your beauty and strength? What do you carry […]
Sergei Esenin (Serguei Yesenin, Sergueï Essénine) – Sounds of Sorrow
Edited unrhymed translation Tedious songs, sad sounds, Let me breathe freely. You bring me suffering, You torment my chest Instead, give me joy, give me peace, Let me fall soundly asleep. Thoughts after thoughts like a vague swarm, Sounds, you had wrecked my path. So, be silent, the sounds are messengers of grief, Tears are […]
Аnything can happen
Аnything can happen (Unrhymed translation, Russian original) You know, anything can happen in life: It happens that the stars are sprinkled like sparkling dust. Sometimes, the sky smiles at you along with the sun, And, for no reason, your mood can be good Fate will give you a handful of successful days, They will scatter […]
What’s wrong with volunteering?
What’s wrong with volunteering? A lot, I’d say, a lot. It’s not human engineering It’s a nastier lot. What’s wrong with volunteering? What’s wrong with volunteers? Oh boy, it is all about profiteering It’s all about profiteers. But wait and say What’s really wrong with volunteering? Are volunteers not noble folk? Alas, this story […]
Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
(translated, interpreted by Ezra Pound) 1) Wisdom set apart from all desire, A hoary Nestor with youth’s own glad eyes, Him met I at the style, and all benign He greeted me an equal and I knew, By this his lack of pomp, he was himself. Slow-Smiling is companion unto him, And Mellow-Laughter serves, his […]
An Ode to the Democratic Rat
An Ode to the Democratic Rat June My democratic Rat, you inspire me to write. As I observe the way your sick follies expand Infesting minds through the day and by the night, Always dreaming about the bright inland. Let me compare you to a static moon? You are a bit more bitchy and […]
Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
Sonnet, from the 1911 edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica SONNET (Ital. Sonetto, dim. of Suono, Fr. Sonnet). The sonnet in the literature of modern Europe is a brief poetic form of fourteen rhymed verses, ranged according to prescription. Although in a language like the English it does no doubt require considerable ingenuity to construct a satisfactory sonnet of octave and […]
To A Feminist
You Feminist bitchRepulsive and outlandish.Full of pointless spiteAnd a vacant brain as wellShe barks: we feel repulsed ————————————————————- The Poetic Monster is a multilingual poetry site. Here you can read original poems in English and other languages, as well as publish your poems. © Poetry Monster , 2021. Poems in English. Submit a poem. Even anonymously. Find […]
对于女权主义者
你是女权主义者的ch子令人反感和古怪。充满毫无意义的恶意还有一个空荡的大脑她吠叫：我们感到恶心。
To the Rat’s Pencil
Oh the rat’s pencilYour valor was so steadfastTill the sharp teeth sankInto your once creative fleshTo sharpen it. Draw, you wretch! So much for the rat’s pencil or to the Rat’s Pencil. This was a tanka poem, not a rat’s … pencil. Tankas have nothing to do with tanks. Praise? Condemnation. Love for the rat? […]
致老鼠的铅笔
哦，那只老鼠的铅笔你的勇气如此坚定直到尖锐的牙齿沉没融入您曾经富有创造力的肉体使其锐化。 抽奖，你真烂！ 这是最初用英语写的短歌诗的机器翻译。
Toward Salvation
Imported masterTreasonous and traitorous.On a dim-lit pathLeads his brainless followersToward salvation. Let’s laugh. This is a tanka poem. Toward salvation. Tankas have nothing to do with tanks. Praise? Condemnation. Love for the rat? Write to the Fledermausi. Want to post a mindless ad on your own, scribble it on the monstrous board.
My rat
1 My rat I love my rat He is just so outrageously fat. Clutching his stupid iPhone That is of a satanically pink hue He giggles; I feel so happy The End Though it’s not the end of my rat My Rat The Poetic Monster is a multilingual poetry site. Here you can read original […]
I Love My Rat
I love my ratHe is just so outrageously fat.Clutching his stupid iPhoneThat is of a satanically pink hueHe giggles; I feel so happy The End. Sort of. I love my rat. External links: DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS ENTRE MACHIAVEL ET MONTESQUIEU. 1. Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? The truth behind. An Ode […]
我爱我的老鼠
我爱我的老鼠他简直太胖了。抓住他愚蠢的iPhone那是撒旦的粉红色他咯咯地笑。 我真高兴 写信给Fledermaus或在Doska板上张贴任何内容。
Impostor’s Coronation
Twenty thousand-plus armed troopsCountless plainclothes thugsAnd uniformed lowlifes in groupsWhile agents lurked around as if they were selling drugsStonefaced, shamed-faced and shamelessCreatures in disguise stood guard around the siteOf a circus-like arena, the show on it as heinousAnd just as sad as the defrauded nation’s plightHyenas howled: the freakish mummy puppet will be crownedNo matter […]
Monster’s Cave
1 This was improvised as the a welcome message in verse for (the) Poetry Monster Please come in and help the poor poetic monster clean up organize his messy cave. This Monster’s Cave looks like a mess Though this is a disorder Creative one I must profess Or something on the border Of madness, insolence, […]
白色四月
1 四月临近。 雪仍在。 老人冬天强奸了婴儿三月 并用她的小尸体睡在他的冰冻洞中 他一定以为与春天未出生的长子同睡 至少可以延长几周的生命 如果那是冬天的目标，那又老又狡猾的野兽 赢得了大时间。 至少可以说。 因为冬天仍然在我们身边 忽略日历和我们的期望 他的雪到处都是 如此新鲜，洁白，纯净，仿佛无可非议 好像没有理会4月份的早该采取的措施 请四月，来吹扫这个积雪的地方。 请融化雪。 让我们继续前进。 Hendrick Avercamp, 1585-1634, 荷兰画家或荷兰画家[↩]
White April
April is approaching.Snow is still around.The old man winter raped the baby month of MarchAnd slept with her tiny corpse in his deep-frozen holeHe must have thought that sleeping with the spring’s unborn firstbornWill extend his own life by a matter of a few weeks, at leastIf that was the winter’s goal, the old and […]
我被包围了
我被黑暗包围 这不是完全黑暗的暗物质 黑暗很浓 压迫性 胶 渗透 通过物质扩散 不可避免的 单调 不可避免的 这是我自己
Surrounded
I am surrounded by darkness It is not the dark matter sort of total darkness This darkness is thick Oppressive Gluey Permeating Diffusing through substance Unavoidable Monotonous Inescapable It’s my own self That’s it — post your own poem or you can post an ad for free (or even a poem though why would you do that there is a different matter altogether) […]