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:
- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
 - Not out of the running by Margaret Marie Hubbard
 - Олег Григорьев – Кресло рассохлось
 - The May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
 - Ripening by Wendell Berry
 - Ирина Гурина – Как появляются листочки
 - At the Galleria Shopping Mall by Tony Hoagland
 - Farewell by Rabindranath Tagore
 - The Curse Of Cromwell by William Butler Yeats
 - The Loving Game by Vernon Scannell
 - A Conceit by Maya Angelou
 - Dreams poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - One And Two by Will McKendree Carleton
 - My Dear Old Mother by Walter William Safar
 - Владимир Британишский – Урочище
 
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
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: The Prelude poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H. Obiit MDCCCXXXIII: 3. O Sorrow, cruel poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 131. O living will that shalt endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 99. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 95. By night we linger’d on the lawn poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 83. Dip down upon the northern shore poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 78. Again at Christmas did we weave poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 5. Sometimes I Hold it half a Sin poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 45. The baby new to earth and sky poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 39. Old warder of these buried bones poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 2. Old Yew, which graspest at the sto poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 22. The path by which we twain did go poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 16. I Envy not in any Moods poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 15. To-night the winds begin to rise poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 126. Love is and was my Lord and King 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