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
A few random poems:
- Алексей Плещеев – Лучше гибель без возврата
 - Олег Григорьев – Слезы
 - Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
 - I see the Four-fold Man by William Blake
 - Distant View Of England From The Sea by William Lisle Bowles
 - A MEAN IN OUR MEANS by Robert Herrick
 - Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
 - A Song of Peach-Blossom River by Wang Wei
 - Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
 - What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
 - The Balloon Of The Mind by William Butler Yeats
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Неужто здесь сошёлся клином свет
 - Hurrahing In Harvest poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
 - Robert Burns: A Bottle And Friend:
 - Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
 
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
- The Princess: A Medley: Our Enemies have Fall’n poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: As thro’ the land poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Passing Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Palace of Art poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Owl poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Miller’s Daughter poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Merman poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Lord of Burleigh poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Letters poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Last Tournament poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Lady of Shalott | Best Love Poems
 - The Holy Grail poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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