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:
- Buddies by Richard Schiffman
 - From My Last Years. by Walt Whitman
 - He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged by Philip Larkin
 - An Imperial Elegy by Wilfred Owen
 - Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
 - The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
 - the_man_that_poetry_made.html
 - Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
 - Testimony by Seamus Heaney
 - Oh Day Of Fire And Sun by Sara Teasdale
 - Robert Burns: O Aye My Wife She Dang Me:
 - Exeat by Stevie Smith
 - The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence by W. S. Merwin
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Я любил и женщин и проказы
 - An Address to the New Tay Bridge by William Topaz McGonagall
 
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 Орлов – Летит корабль
 - Владимир Орлов – Ковровые дорожки
 - Владимир Орлов – Кому что снится?
 - Владимир Орлов – Как Таппи научился лаять
 - Владимир Орлов – Как появились ромашки
 - Владимир Орлов – Где петушок носит гребешок
 - Владимир Орлов – Дядя Миша на печи
 - Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
 - Владимир Орлов – Цветное молоко
 - Владимир Орлов – Что нельзя купить
 - Владимир Орлов – Белые стихи о черном пуделе
 - Владимир Набоков – Забудешь ты меня, как эту ночь забудешь
 - Владимир Набоков – Я на море гляжу из мраморного храма
 - Владимир Набоков – Встреча
 - Владимир Набоков – Воскресение мёртвых
 - Владимир Набоков – Верба
 - Владимир Набоков – Вдали от берега, в мерцании морском
 - Владимир Набоков – В полнолунье, в гостиной пыльной и пышной
 - Владимир Набоков – Ut pictura poesis
 - Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
 
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