The light so thick nothing’s visible, cognoscenti
I knew them, stupid apes. Real apes know more
Before we said apes. I know how to be you bet-
ter?—?a stupid voice. You must find a mind
to respect?—?why? There was someone with ear
buds, speaking gibberish who wouldn’t
stop walking beside me; freckle-spattered. I
had to ask the métro attendant for help;
she extricated him from me … I respect his chaotic
speech, mild adhesive force because it makes no sense.
I am back on the alley, discovering adults are un-
trustworthy: someone’s lying … about a
fight between a teenage girl and boy?—?he pushed
her hard?—?first she badly scratched him, she’s worse, his
mother says. I’m back at pre-beginning, I don’t
want to go through that again. There is no
sexuality in chaos, there’s no style, nor
hope. I want style?—?apes have style, people
have machines. Show me something to respect
This bleuet growing out of a wall on rue d’Hauteville.
I picked it and pressed it in a diary. Every once
in a while I respect a moment. I am back at
pre-beginning: I don’t want to care beyond
this … sudden hue in the sand, yellow or spotted with an
hallucinated iridescence. The one who is
stalking me … there has often been someone stalk-
ing me. My destiny. He’s gone, stay here
in this, I can’t be harmed if I’m the only one who’s
thought of being here. Aren’t you lonely? I don’t know.
Copyright ©:
Alice Notley
A few random poems:
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- Tell me not here, it needs not saying poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- Moonlight by Vita Sackville-West
- Владимир Костров – В керосиновой лампе
- When Love Is Over
- Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns
- The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Something by Robert Creeley
- A Girl Sang a Song poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- I Heard an Angel by William Blake
- On Edges
- june_sick_room.html
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
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
- Total Recount by Pamela Griffiths
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- The Sea and the Shadow by Paul Blackburn
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- The Blue Guitar by P. K. Page
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
- Teasing by Pamela Griffiths
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- Single Traveller by P. K. Page
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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
