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
- On Flaxman’s Penelope by William Cowper
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- “Mike Teavee…” by Roald Dahl
- A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
- Sonet 38 by William Alexander
- Жан де Лафонтен – Павлин, жалующийся Юноне
- 1926 by Weldon Kees
- The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
- A Te Deum poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка о слухах
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
- Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
- Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry
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).
