Grand Slam Night poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster 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:
- Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Наум Коржавин – Есть у тех, кому нету места
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- Ольга Седакова – Только время доходит сюда
- minding love by Raj Arumugam
- A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
- The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
- Владимир Британишский – Этот вечер
- Ольга Берггольц – Возвращение
- Creative Writing For Stress Relief
- A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning
- Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
- Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
- To a person, they say, frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: A celle que l’on fit froide by T. Wignesan
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works