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
- Иван Мятлев – Фонарики
- Conquistador
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Лесная дева
- A Practical Young Woman poem – Irwin Russell “,
- Birds Calling in the Ravine by Wang Wei
- Till I Wake
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- Thoughts. by Walt Whitman
- Song—O let me in this ae night by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – Только время доходит сюда
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пещеры Кизиль-коба
- Владимир Корнилов – В прачечной
- Blue Glass by Ross D Tyler
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited by William Butler Yeats
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).
