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:
- On Mrs. Montague’s Feather Hangings by William Cowper
 - At A Calvary Near The Ancre by Wilfred Owen
 - Death Sir Henry Wootton
 - Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
 - On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
 - In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
 - Bertie the Goldfish by Ross D Tyler
 - Василий Тредиаковский – Дворы там весьма суть уединенны
 - Robert Burns: The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata:
 - In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
 - Robert Burns: Halloween: The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland. The passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.-R.B.
 - When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
 - Владимир Костров – Выходец из волости лесистой
 - A Death Song by William Morris
 - Bombardment by Siegfried Sassoon
 
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 Маяковский – Забудем солдатчину!.. (РОСТА №425)
 - Владимир Маяковский – За женщиной
 - Владимир Маяковский – За истекший декабрь добыча по Подмосковному… (РОСТА №896)
 - Владимир Маяковский – За четыре года советской власти… (Главполитпросвет №248)
 - Владимир Маяковский – За 10 месяцев 1920 года… (РОСТА №748)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Юг завоевала победа… (РОСТА №568)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Все на фронт добровольцами! Пока… (РОСТА)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Все давайте советской республике, все получите от советской республики (РОСТА № 293)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Все буржуи мчат на помощь Врангелю… (РОСТА №410)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Врангеля мы добили… (РОСТА №621)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Врангель (РОСТА №477)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Врангель прет… (РОСТА №363)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Врангель – фон… (РОСТА №472)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Враги хлеба
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вперед, комсомольцы
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вот за то, что я пою… (Главполитпросвет №153)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вот советской России враги. С каждым боритесь, пока не погиб (РОСТА № 179)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вот по борьбе с голодом отчет (Главполитпросвет №320)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вот о помощи голодающим отчет (Главполитпросвет №367)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Вот молочный налог… (Главполитпросвет №217)
 
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