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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Домой
- Years of the Modern. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Набоков – В полнолунье, в гостиной пыльной и пышной
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 3 poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Resolved Be Loved
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- Картошка
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- Олег Бундур – Разногласия
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
- Perfections. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Очкину (Было время, мой приятель)
- Новелла Матвеева – Маяк
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.