A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Failing sometimes to understand
Why there are folk whose flesh should seem
Like carrion puffed with noisome steam,
Fly-blown to the eye that looks on it,
Fly-blown to the touch of a hand;
Why there are men without any legs,
Whizzing along on little trollies
With long long arms like apes’:
Failing to see why God the Topiarist
Should train and carve and twist
Men’s bodies into such fantastic shapes:
Yes, failing to see the point of it all, I sometimes wish
That I were a fabulous thing in a fool’s mind,
Or, at the ocean bottom, in a world that is deaf and blind,
Very remote and happy, a great goggling fish.
A few random poems:
- Follow My Directions, Please: A Fun Christian Preschool Activity
- Solomon To Sheba by William Butler Yeats
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- Олег Бундур – Будильник
- Here by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Robert Burns: My Father Was A Farmer:
- Hymn To Woden by William Lisle Bowles
- Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
- The Pilgrim by William Butler Yeats
- Late Light by Philip Levine
- Song—Anna, thy Charms by Robert Burns
- To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
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
- Владимир Ступкин – Тоска
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- Владимир Макуров – Бумажный самолёт
- Владимир Луговской – Звезда (Я знаю ты любишь меня)
- Владимир Луговской – Жестокое пробужденье
- Владимир Луговской – Ты руку на голову мне положила
- Владимир Луговской – Та, которую я знал
- Владимир Луговской – Спасибо
- Владимир Луговской – Севастополь
- Владимир Луговской – Радость
- Владимир Луговской – Повелитель бумаги
- Владимир Луговской – Почтовый переулок
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- Владимир Луговской – Первый снег
- Владимир Луговской – Пепел
- Владимир Луговской – Остролистник
- Владимир Луговской – Обращение
- Владимир Луговской – Ночной патруль
- Владимир Луговской – Мертвый хватает живого
- Владимир Луговской – Мальчики играют на горе
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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.