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:
- The Second Voyage by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 56: Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said by William Shakespeare
- Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel
- On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ольга Берггольц – Сибиринка
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- Василий Жуковский – Гаральд
- The Inheritance by Thomas J Camp
- Robert Burns: Willie Chalmers: Mr. Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea. I had seen her, but was scarcely acquainted with her, and wrote as follows:-
- William Strode – William Strode
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
- Total Recount by Pamela Griffiths
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- The Sea and the Shadow by Paul Blackburn
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- The Blue Guitar by P. K. Page
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
- Teasing by Pamela Griffiths
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- Single Traveller by P. K. Page
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
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.