by Alex Gross
What do you say when you
Are with people? You say you
Want to be alone. What do you say
When you are alone? You say you
Want to be with people.
I’ll tell you why that is. It’s because
You are never alone. Your thoughts
Are always there. Sometimes you
May welcome them, but other times
They scare you.
You remember things that you don’t
Want to. The less you want them there,
The more they stay. They torture you.
They infect your mind like a disease.
The more you tell them to go away,
The more they defy you.
They come in all forms. They’re words,
Or they’re pictures, maybe moving pictures.
The only sure-fire way to stop this virus, is
To leak a new one. This one must be pleasant.
Just like Peter Pan, you must think happy thoughts.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2011 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ходоки
- minding love by Raj Arumugam
- A Zong by William Barnes
- To Independence by Tobias Smollett
- Владимир Британишский – Служба
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Let me draw your face by St Antoine de la Vuadi
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Предостережение
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Robin Hood And The Butcher poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Goblins Of The Steppes poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Life Theoretic poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- I Remember by Stevie Smith
- Culver Dell And The Squire by William Barnes
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
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before Dawn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Aubade poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apples of Hesperides poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Aquarium poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
