A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Sitting on the top of the ‘bus,
I bite my pipe and look at the sky.
Over my shoulder the smoke streams out
And my life with it.
“Conservation of energy,” you say.
But I burn, I tell you, I burn;
And the smoke of me streams out
In a vanishing skein of grey.
Crash and bump … my poor bruised body!
I am a harp of twittering strings,
An elegant instrument, but infinitely second-hand,
And if I have not got phthisis it is only an accident.
Droll phenomena!
A few random poems:
- All Days Seem Same
- dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Языков – Разбойники
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- I Thought I was not Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Набоков – И видел я, стемнели неба своды
- Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Серенада Соловья-разбойника
- Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Вера Полозкова – И пока он вскакивает с кровати
- Corn A-Turnen Yollow by William Barnes
- The Danish Boy by William Wordsworth
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.