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:
- Borrowed Verses by Subhash Misra
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Почему
 - Владимир Маяковский – Севастопольский корреспондент “Матен” сообщает… (РОСТА №507)
 - Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
 - Алексей Толстой – Растянулся на просторе
 - Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan
 - The Memorial poem – Alexander Pushkin
 - The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein
 - Наум Коржавин – На побывке
 - Heaven by Philip Levine
 - Grandeur Of Ghosts by Siegfried Sassoon
 - When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
 - The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky by Vachel Lindsay
 - Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
 - Old Memory 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
- Meg Merrilies poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines On The Mermaid Tavern poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines from Endymion poem – John Keats poems
 - Lines poem – John Keats poems
 - Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
 - La Belle Dame Sans Merci poem – John Keats poems
 - Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There poem – John Keats poems
 - Isabella or The Pot of Basil poem – John Keats poems
 - John Keats – John Keats Poems
 - In Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
 - If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion poem – John Keats poems
 - Hymn To Apollo poem – John Keats poems
 - How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
 - Hither, Hither, Love poem – John Keats poems
 - His Last Sonnet poem – John Keats poems
 - Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
 - Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
 - Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl 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