by ahcene mariche
If we could make of negligence an arm
It would cause disaster
Pains and wounds
And lead us to despair and failure
No one can tolerate it
It is the ruin of all hopes
We want to keep away from it
When we see its doing
From our minds we have to chase it
Together we will succeed
Negligence is the worst flaw
It destroys castles
And devastates people
It is even merciless
Its preys are here to show
That it led their lives to wreck
Look again around you
You will notice
The huge number of victims
Many are those who fall down
Because no one supports them
And all memories are erased
Because no one recalls them
Like an illness, negligence
Kills, blinds and paralyses
Like fire stired up with hay
Or like floods devastating frontiers
The negligent should be penalized
Their judgment must be harsh
They stole, killed and destroyed
They are worse than guns and knives
Negligence appears at early hours
Like a threatening shadow
Quiet and with a firm step
It goes beyond boundaries
Quickly it reaches the fatal end
ahcene mariche

A few random poems:
- He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
- Indian Dancers by Sarojini Naidu
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Стих как бы шофера
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Brink Of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon
- Books And Thoughts
- A Country Nosegay poem – Alfred Austin
- The Speed Of Light by W. S. Merwin
- The Wind At The Door by William Barnes
- The Lost Star — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Низами Гянджеви – Там, где лик ты светлый явишь
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
- A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Arrow through the bellybutton poem
- In shadows of night
- The Snake
- 永遠
- Forever
- 歐盟
- Storm poem – André Rostant poems
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