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:
- Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Beacon Fires
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
- Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
- Николай Заболоцкий – Когда вдали угаснет свет дневной
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Sonnet CXIV by William Shakespeare
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- Robert Burns: No Churchman Am I:
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
