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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
- Владимир Степанов – Ослик
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
- A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мороз
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- At Oxford by William Lisle Bowles
- Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
- Валерий Брюсов – Фаэтон
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).
