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:
- A Hermit Thrush poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Ballade Of Aucassin poem – Andrew Lang poems
 - Низами Гянджеви – Ради встречи с тобой я до края земли дошел
 - Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
 - Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) poem – A. Van Jordan poems
 - Зинаида Александрова – Игрушки
 - The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
 - A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
 - The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
 - Colors And Sounds
 - Ольга Ермолаева – Всю эту печаль невозможно вместить целиком
 - Lover’s Gifts VIII: There Is Room for You by Rabindranath Tagore
 - Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
 - love by Raj Arumugam
 - Any Soul That Drank the Nectar by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 
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
- Apollo And The Graces poem – John Keats poems
 - Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - An Extempore poem – John Keats poems
 - Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats poem – John Keats poems
 - A Song About Myself poem – John Keats poems
 - A Prophecy: To George Keats In America poem – John Keats poems
 - A Party Of Lovers poem – John Keats poems
 - A Galloway Song poem – John Keats poems
 - A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paolo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
 - A Draught Of Sunshine poem – John Keats poems
 - Written On The Day That Mr Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
 - Written On A Summer Evening poem – John Keats poems
 - Written On A Blank Space At The End Of Chaucer’s Tale Of The Flowre And The Lefe poem – John Keats poems
 - Written Before Re-Reading King Lear poem – John Keats poems
 - Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell poem – John Keats poems
 - Where’s the Poet? poem – John Keats poems
 - Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? poem – John Keats poems
 - When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
 - To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
 - To Solitude 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