Reality is a question
of realizing how real
the world is already.
Time is Eternity,
ultimate and immovable;
everyone’s an angel.
It’s Heaven’s mystery
of changing perfection :
absolute Eternity
changes! Cars are always
going down the street,
lamps go off and on.
It’s a great flat plain;
we can see everything
on top of a table.
Clams open on the table,
lambs are eaten by worms
on the plain. The motion
of change is beautiful,
as well as form called
in and out of being.
Next : to distinguish process
in its particularity with
an eye to the initiation
of gratifying new changes
desired in the real world.
Here we’re overwhelmed
with such unpleasant detail
we dream again of Heaven.
For the world is a mountain
of shit : if it’s going to
be moved at all, it’s got
to be taken by handfuls.
Man lives like the unhappy
whore on River Street who
in her Eternity gets only
a couple of bucks and a lot
of snide remarks in return
for seeking physical love
the best way she knows how,
never really heard of a glad
job or joyous marriage or
a difference in the heart :
or thinks it isn’t for her,
which is her worst misery.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Британишский – Урочище
- Николай Языков – Дом сумасшедших в Дерпте
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- Spring Rain by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Огарев – С полуночи ветер холодный подул
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Талисман
- These nights by Manushya Puthiran
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Insomniac by Sylvia Plath
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Михаил Лермонтов – Благодарность
- Fragments
- Binsey Poplars poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
- Sweeney among the Nightingales by T. S. Eliot
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
- Preludes by T. S. Eliot
- Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
- Old Deuteronomy by T. S. Eliot
- Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Mistoffelees by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot
- Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
- Journey Of The Magi by T. S. Eliot
- Hysteria by T. S. Eliot
- Gus: The Theatre Cat by T. S. Eliot
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- Gerontion by T. S. Eliot
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
