A Toast To Nations
by Admiral Mahic
Nations and nationalities, you are not chocolate,
you are the sweetest Jam cooked from bitter labour!
You are the original egg, the supreme cause of war and peace!
You are the homeland of the rising sun and moon.
You are the cameras recording
from all angles the smashed egg. You know everything,
but have no one to add it all up,
so I’m glad that you’re both there and not there,
I see you and I don’t see you.
Nations and nationalities,
self-love is the caries of the soul.
What enterprise of violent death
wants to remain unpunished?
Nations, have you inquired of each other’s health?
Have you dreamt of a homeland
where the sun and moon do not rise,
a homeland without the vain pride of the envious,
a homeland without sexual gymnastics,
a homeland without boxing money,
have you dreamt of the homeland as a full glass
of love with no jealousy?!
Long live the full glass of love without jealousy!
Admiral
Copyright ©:
Admiral Mahic
A few random poems:
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Огюст Барбье – Рафаэль
- The First Part: Sonnet 3 – Ye who so curiously do paint your thoughts, by William Drummond
- Жан де Лафонтен – Старый Кот и Мышонок
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переселение
- Олег Бундур – Силачи
- Владимир Высоцкий – Смотрины
- Шекспир – День без тебя казался ночью – Сонет 43
- Over the Carnage. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Что значило “празднование новогоднее”?.. (РОСТА №672)
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Song—Sweet Afton by Robert Burns
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Весёлый воробей
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
