I came home and found a lion in my room…
[First draft of “The Lion for Real” CP 174-175]
A lion met America
in the road
they stared at each other
two figures on the crossroads in the desert.
America screamed
The lion roared
They leaped at each other
America desperate to win
Fighting with bombs, flamethrowers,
knives forks submarines.
The lion ate America, bit off her head
and loped off to the golden hills
that’s all there is to say
about america except
that now she’s
lionshit all over the desert.

A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
- Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
- Ольга Седакова – Я жизнь в порыве жить
- Thrones In Heaven by Victoria Rose
- In The Village Of My Ancestors by Vasko Popa
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот раньше жизнь
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- A Faery’s Lament poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Robert Burns: Scotch Drink :
- Tumult by Nicole M Nugent
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- The Beach by Weldon Kees
- Николай Гумилев – Лиловый цветок
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works