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:
- Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Николай Языков – Поздравление М. Н. Дириной
- Владимир Маяковский – Не вразброд, не случайно (Главполитпросвет)
- A New Song by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Корнилов – Неподвижность
- Владимир Маяковский – Трудовая взаимопомощь инвентарем (Агитплакаты)
- Don’t Ask Me Why poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Hollow Woak by William Barnes
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
- Siege Of Vienna Raised By Jihn Sobieski by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – Голубое, голубое
- Sonnet CXXXVI by William Shakespeare
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
