The Ugly Little Bird
by Admiral Mahic
Someone has pulled me out of the grass
Because I had fallen
From a black branch.
O sweet! O wild!
The cats are evil here!
O am an ugly little bird – with my soft beak
I keep pecking at the running brook
And I screech when at someone
Bruuised by the brute force I look!
My wings still cannot fly
But I love to travel.
My little feet I can hardly raise.
Restraining my wild little shudders
I feebly into the sky gaze.
I do not want to be in the nest
In which darkness keeps me warm.
Alone and all my own
Weak and strong,
I remain out, in the storm!
Admiral
Copyright ©:
Admiral Mahic
A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: The Mauchline Lady: Fragment
- Silent Steps by Rabindranath Tagore
- I’ll go and be a Sodger by Robert Burns
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Купальские игрища
- Низами Гянджеви – Встань, виночерпий, не ленись
- Doubts by Rupert Brooke
- Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman
- The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
- The Judges Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
- Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Наум Коржавин – Генерал
- Sonnet CXLIII by William Shakespeare
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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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
