Cats
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Cats no less liquid than their shadows
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat through loopholes
Less than themselves; will not be pinned
To rules or routes for journeys; counter
Attack with non-resistance; twist
Enticing through the curving fingers
And leave an angered empty fist.
They wait obsequious as darkness
Quick to retire, quick to return;
Admit no aim or ethics; flatter
With reservations; will not learn
To answer to their names; are seldom
Truly owned till shot or skinned.
Cats no less liquid than their shadows
Offer no angles to the wind.
A few random poems:
- Вероника Тушнова – Кто-то в проруби тонет
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
- Trendy Madness In Fashion Meccas
- Picture-Show by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
- Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came by Robert Browning
- As Toilsome I Wander’d. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – У профессиональных игроков
- We put the urn aboard ship by Sappho
- Whispers of Heavenly Death. by Walt Whitman
- Song—Behold, my love, how green the groves by Robert Burns
- Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence
- White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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