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:
- A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Wha Is That At My Bower-Door:
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Hughley Steeple poem – A. E. Housman
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In The Train by Sara Teasdale
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t:
- Rhapsody on a Windy Night by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Некрасов – Возвращение
- Hither, Hither, Love poem – John Keats poems
- Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
- Ballade Of Sleep poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Орлов – Что нельзя купить
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.