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:
- Robert Burns: The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness:
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- On A March Day by Sara Teasdale
- “Brave Schill! By Death Delivered” by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Никто не лицезрел ни рая, ни геенны
- Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
- An Eare-Stringe by William Strode
- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
- Boldness in Love by Thomas Carew
- Олег Бундур – Спешу
- Альфред Теннисон – Лорд Борлей
- Robert Burns: Tam Glen:
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
- Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача
- Николай Заболоцкий – Футбол
- Николай Заболоцкий – Это было давно
- Николай Заболоцкий – Движение
- Николай Заболоцкий – Дождь
- Николай Заболоцкий – Детство
- Николай Заболоцкий – Цирк
- Николай Заболоцкий – Читайте, деревья, стихи Гезиода
- Николай Заболоцкий – Человек в воде
- Николай Заболоцкий – Царица мух
- Николай Заболоцкий – Болезнь
- Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками
- Николай Заболоцкий – Бетховен
- Николай Заболоцкий – Бегство в Египет
- Николай Заболоцкий – Баллада Жуковского
- Николай Языков – Жизни баловень счастливый
- Николай Языков – Землетрясенье
- Николай Языков – Записки А. С. Дириной
- Николай Языков – Я. П. Полонскому (Благодарю тебя за твой подарок милой…)
- Николай Языков – Вторая присяга
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.