Poems about Poetry
Excerpt From The “Gertrude Stein” Collaborative Series
by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
butter in a jam jar ajar like a door knob still shiny maple over butter over buttermilk waffles brown as burnished gold not so yellow not so buttery an effect buttering up milkman postman both trucks stuck in mud ugly mud on face on arms neck knees legs butcher boots
but butter is grace is utterance is warm fire mother’s warm hands but for dad in a bunker
big summer bumper crop of honeycomb and languor like a bath lathering
ice cream in mouth in open chuckle but take the memory in float down
but button down the soapy memory she said button down the blue house and luggage walks and good fairground fun because the times are slipping down on knees like the old warring years
but for the buckeye butterflies over marigold flutter flutter aflutter

Titular

Copyright ©:
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé

A few random poems:
- The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
- All Things Can Tempt Me by William Butler Yeats
- Lines Written In Early Spring by William Wordsworth
- Олег Чупров – Душа
- A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Маяковский – Чем отличается Красная Армия от царской?.. (РОСТА №559)
- Heart To Heart by Rita Dove
- Владимир Британишский – О, растенья-пустынники дюнных песков
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Что делать, чтоб сытому быть?.. (РОСТА №219)
- Степан Щипачев – Березка
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прощание с саблею
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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