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:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Мне помнится рудник Бутугычаг
- The Moment I knew my Life had Changed by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Маленькой Женни
- Владимир Высоцкий – То бишь о чём
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия — единое советское хозяйство (РОСТА № 280)
- The Editor’s Guests by Will McKendree Carleton
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
- The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
- The Young British Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
- Proactive Responses to Recession – 7 Creative Ways to Make Extra Money With Real Estate
- You’re by Sylvia Plath
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision” by Robert Burns
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- At the Party by W H Auden
- Old People’s Home by W H Auden
- O What Is That Sound by W H Auden
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Nocturne by W H Auden
- A New Age by W H Auden
- Like A Vocation by W H Auden
- Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
- Law, Like Love by W H Auden
- At Last the Secret is Out by W H Auden
- Lady Weeping at the Crossroads by W H Auden
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- In the Time of War, XII by W H Auden
- In Praise Of Limestone by W H Auden
- Here War Is Simple by W H Auden
- Give me a doctor by W H Auden
- from The Cave of Making by W H Auden
- from In Time of War by W H Auden
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
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