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:
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
 - acts_of_love.html
 - Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
 - The Geography of the House by W H Auden
 - For Mêng Hao-jan by Wang Wei
 - Омар Хайям – Часть людей обольщается жизнью земной
 - Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
 - Stray Colors by Satish Verma
 - flight_of_stairs.html
 - Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
 - Sonnet 10
 - In the New Garden in all the Parts. by Walt Whitman
 - City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman
 - Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
 - Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
 
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
- Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book III poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book II poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book I poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion, A Vision: Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment Of “The Castle Builder.” poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment: Modern Love poem – John Keats poems
 - Faery Songs poem – John Keats poems
 - Extracts From An Opera poem – John Keats poems
 - Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - Endymion: Book I poem – John Keats poems
 - Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
 - Dawlish Fair poem – John Keats poems
 - Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
 - Calidore: A Fragment poem – John Keats poems
 - Ben Nevis: A Dialogue poem – John Keats poems
 - Asleep! O Sleep A Little While, White Pearl! poem – John Keats poems
 
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