by Alissia Lyons
The end of the world was dreary
And teary, and eerie and grey
As some did run to their loved ones,
Others did cry in dismay
They trampled, and wrestled and panicked
not knowing just what they should do
The people of Earth, they spent their last minutes
Wondering… before all their lives they saw through
If I had a last moment to live
I think I’d sit and wonder as well
How do you spend such a moment?
It’s human, it’s futile, death’s spell
As the ships descend through the atmosphere,
As the zombies, they leap from the earth
Tsunamis, eruptions, corruptions commandeer
And our lives are burned at the hearth
As bushfires roar across golden planes,
As disease stamps out our last breath,
As our own stupidity strikes finally again,
We contemplate, we internalise our own death
Copyright ©:
Alissia Lyons
A few random poems:
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 50: How heavy do I journey on the way by William Shakespeare
- John Sutter by Yvor Winters
- Returned To Say by William Stafford
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Луговской – Жестокое пробужденье
- Владимир Луговской – Мальчики играют на горе
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Рубцов – Жеребенок
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- Hope, An Allegorical Sketch by William Lisle Bowles
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чудом тени
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
