Poems about Poetry
In Between the Strophes
by Marcin Malek
I’ll never be a king of the brave
The vain poet – I lied,  forgive me if you care
I went calmly through all the stages of madness
The last it’s the tongue on a stranger face
And believe that man can turn in to a bird
To look at people and things
Without the need of rising the gaze
What a disruptive and ugly input
– Acquired romanticism
To have eyes placed on occiput 
And after all, to see against the stiff neck
How veils of the wild cranes are waving
Across the sunset fires and dense shades
I’ll never be a king of the brave
Timorous rhymer – I laughed, who cares
That I went through all the stages of foolishness
The last it’s the thought that anyone chased
Man, dog or a worm
Will find an asylum
Somewhere in between the strophes
              Copyright ©: 
                    Marcin Malek        
        

A few random poems:
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
 - Days by Philip Larkin
 - Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
 - The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
 - Dews of Silence by Raju Baruah
 - Николай Языков – А. Н. Очкину (Было время, мой приятель)
 - Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic
 - Владимир Набоков – Простая песня, грусть простая
 - Far Out by Philip Larkin
 - Вера Звягинцева – Стоишь, не поднимая глаз
 - Wings
 - Law, Like Love by W H Auden
 - Из всех искусств кинематограф
 - Dead Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon
 - The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats
 
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
- Владимир Степанов – Почему не спят котята?
 - Владимир Степанов – Осы
 - Владимир Степанов – Ослик
 - Владимир Степанов – Облако-овечка
 - Владимир Степанов – Неваляшка (Буква Н)
 - Владимир Степанов – Наша Армия
 - Владимир Степанов – Мышь и кошка
 - Владимир Степанов – Мишка (Буква М)
 - Владимир Степанов – Масленица
 - Владимир Степанов – Лисички
 - Владимир Степанов – Кто хозяин
 - Владимир Степанов – Кот
 - Владимир Степанов – Конкурс красоты
 - Владимир Степанов – Как живете? Что жуете?
 - Владимир Степанов – Гусь и цыплёнок
 - Владимир Степанов – Гном (Буква Г)
 - Владимир Степанов – Галочка-считалочка
 - Владимир Степанов – Эскимос (Буква Э)
 - Владимир Степанов – Енот (Буква Е)
 - Владимир Степанов – Двенадцать месяцев
 
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