by Alexandra Gross
Do you know what it’s like
To be different? To never
Feel quite right with people?
To be in a crowd and yet utterly
Alone? To wish for someone
Who understands you completely,
And come to the realisation that
No such person exists?
I do.
Do you know what it’s likeTo be a freak? To have
Everyone who sees you either
Pity you, or hate you? To receive
Funny looks every day, every hour?
To have people question everything
You say or do?
I do.
Do you know what it’s like
To be unwanted? To know
That you don’t belong anywhere?
To know that you’re nobody’s favourite,
Nobody’s best friend?
To know that, when you’re with a person,
There’s always someone he or she would
Rather be with?
I do.
Do you know what it’s like to be normal?
To be in constant worry that someone
Won’t approve of what you do, or say?
To always need the right clothes, or
The right music on the right iPod?
To never know your real friend
From that person who just wants to
Have the social status of hanging out with
Somebody normal?
I don’t.And I sure as hell never want to find out.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2012 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Корнилов – Встреча
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Геракл (перевод)
- Robert Burns: Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson:
- Edom O’ Gordon poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Bridge-Guard in the Karroo by Rudyard Kipling
- Epigram—Kirk and State Excisemen by Robert Burns
- Алексей Ржевский – Сонет, три разные системы заключающий
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Bonnie Lesley by Robert Burns
- Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
- A Song of an Autumn Night. by Wang Wei
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
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
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- On Your Midnight Pallet Lying poem – A. E. Housman
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- On the Idle Hill of Summer poem – A. E. Housman
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh, when I was in love with you poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- O Why Do You Walk poem – A. E. Housman
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- March poem – A. E. Housman
- March poem – A. E. Housman
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
