the lights are low
you can see the sweat beads
bathing his face like a lizard’s tongue
the crowd is standing on its feet
screaming, dancing, whistling
stomping their feet to the tune
of a marching band
he’s gyrating his hips
making love to the mike
his words are thunder
lightning bolts appear from nowhere
the poems are burning in his hands
the crowd is screaming for more
he’s running up and down the aisle
reciting the ten commandments backwards
he’s back on stage doing acrobatics
the audience is spellbound
the judges are frantically writing
down their scores
he’s standing on his head
he’s trying to raise the dead
he’s brought in the Pope for a duet
the guy waiting his turn
looks white as a ghost
Copyright ©: A. D. Winans
A few random poems:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Два Мула
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- On The Death Of A Fair Infant Dying Of A Cough poem – John Milton poems
- Омар Хайям – Не таи в своем сердце обид и скорбей
- Lover’s Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
- After Yesterday poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Mother Ocean poem – Amy E. Johnsen poems | Poems and Poetry
- Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Британишский – На Марсовом поле
- Mirage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Long Distance I by Tony Harrison
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- The Breast by Russell Edson
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
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
