this is a bewildered
and bashful bat
seeing with its ears
flying without feathers
biting, chewing, nd sucking
instead of beaking or pecking
dreaming on its back
more than on its belly
although a perfectly normal mammal
he has been trying hard
to make a bird’s living
never wanting to deceive
nor attention to receive
forgetting all human associations
i wonder one thing about this bat
are you a little comic error of nature
or rather a tragic wonder of life?
(sept.2, 2004)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Orlando Furioso Canto 4 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Cabbage
- Insomniac by Maya Angelou
- Lover’s Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot
- YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Sonnet 41: Those pretty wrongs that liberty commits by William Shakespeare
- The Shepherd’s Brow, Fronting Forked Lightning, Owns poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Некрасов – Вступление к песням 1876-77 годов
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- Николай Заболоцкий – Прощание
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- The Bridge by Russell Edson
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
