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
Copyright ©: A. D. Winans
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты обут? Тебя обувает фабрика… (РОСТА №601)
- Ольга Седакова – Где-нибудь в углу запущенной болезни
- Владимир Маяковский – Все давайте советской республике, все получите от советской республики (РОСТА № 293)
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Paradox by Willa Cather
- Tom The Lunatic by William Butler Yeats
- Михаил Лермонтов – Беглец
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Before Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- Recollection
- Омар Хайям – Нет ни рая, ни ада, о сердце моё
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Федор Сологуб – Так нежен был внезапный поцелуй
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
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Poems in English
- A Terre by Wilfred Owen
- Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
- Asleep by Wilfred Owen
- Exposure by Wilfred Owen
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
- Le Christianisme by Wilfred Owen
- An Imperial Elegy by Wilfred Owen
- But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
- I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson by Wilfred Owen
- I know The Music (unfinished) by Wilfred Owen
- Hospital Barge At Cerisy by Wilfred Owen
- Has Your Soul Sipped? by Wilfred Owen
- Happiness by Wilfred Owen
- Greater Love by Wilfred Owen
- From My Diary, July 1914 by Wilfred Owen
- At A Calvary Near The Ancre by Wilfred Owen
- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
- Antaeus: [A Fragment] by Wilfred Owen
- A New Heaven (To-On Active Service) by Wilfred Owen
- 1914 by Wilfred Owen
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