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:
- Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
- Lamia. Part II poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сыт я по горло, до подбородка
- Gloucester Moods by William Vaughn Moody
- Pure call of the wilderness by Vinko Kalinic
- Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Nettles by Vernon Scannell
- To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче мне не до улыбок
- A Soldier’s Reprieve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К точкам
- Matter For Gratitude poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Drum-Stick Tree by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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