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
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
- Impromptu Lines to Captain Riddell by Robert Burns
- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif
- In spring and summer winds may blow by Walter Savage Landor
- Стефан Малларме – Звенящий зимний день
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- Cain and Abel by Rudyard Kipling
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Мой друг, о завтрашнем заботиться не след
- I see you moon by Raj Arumugam
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
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).
