by Alex Gross
You’ve asked me already.
Yet you want to know.
What need have you to question
Everything I say and do?
Being conventional is overrated.
Why? you ask. Because
I must be myself. Do I
Tell you to learn to play
An Instrument that no
One has heard of?
The answer is no.
What’s the point?
You want to know now.
I’ll tell you the point.
The point is,
Stop asking me why.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2010 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers by Mahmoud Darwish
- Юрий Коринец – Не кажется ли вам
- Aliens poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Perseus by Robert Hayden
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На поле Ватерло
- Владимир Корнилов – Флейта в метро
- Владимир Маяковский – Глупая история
- It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown by William Wordsworth
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- Стефан Малларме – Устав от горького бездействия и лени
- Written In A Blank Leaf Of Macpherson’s Ossian by William Wordsworth
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- Sonnet CII by William Shakespeare
- An Expostulation to Lord King by Thomas Moore
- Эмиль Верхарн – Здравствуй, подруга
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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

Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.