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:
- Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- At Tynemouth Priory by William Lisle Bowles
- Alone by Walter de la Mare
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- Walking Wounded by Vernon Scannell
- Владимир Орлов – Белые стихи о черном пуделе
- Steeds of Autumn by Todd H. C. Fischer
- The Hero — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Answer To A Child’s Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Like The Water by Wendell Berry
- Станислав Востоков – Не умею
- Knowing God Part 1 – Finding God, Knowing Him, and Doing His Works
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
- To Sea by Martin Zakovski
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Slag by Mark Base
- The Remains by Mark Strand
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
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.