by Alex Gross
Innocent little girl walking.
She is preoccupied, at the moment with
An enigma which plagues all young girls
At a point. Which Barbie Doll do I want?
Another thought enters her head:
What’s for dinner?
Then:
What’s on TV tonight?
She goes on her merry way.
Along comes the intruder.
“Kill your father” it says.
The girl faces the intruder
Head-on.
“No” she says.
The intruder goes away.
But he doesn’t.
It plagues the little girl’s mind.
She can’t get away from it, no matter
What.
She can’t look at her father
Without being filled with fear.
The intruder visits her every day.
Sometimes, it says “Kill your
Brother” or some other.
Sometimes, it tells her to burn the
American flag, or a crucifix.
Sometimes, it wants her to hump that
Dog’s leg instead of him doing it to some human.
Finally’ the intruder becomes too much.
The intruder has visited every one.
It’s only the people who listen to it; the
Innocent little girls Of the world
Who pay any mind to it.
The thing is, those little girls don’t
Do what the intruder says, they
Take their own lives instead.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2011 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- His Pilgrimage by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Dead Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peggy Alison:
- To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- The Routine Things Around The House by Stephen Dunn
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
- Ations by Shel Silverstein
- Divided Passion
- Baby Charley. by Sidney Lanier
- Only If I Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- God’s Grandeur by Ted Hughes
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
- Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Британишский – Лето 1845 года в Соколове
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
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Ambulances by Philip Larkin
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Wisteria by Philip Levine
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
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
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.