the lights are low
you can see the sweat beads
bathing his face like a lizard’s tongue
the crowd is standing on its feet
screaming, dancing, whistling
stomping their feet to the tune
of a marching band
he’s gyrating his hips
making love to the mike
his words are thunder
lightning bolts appear from nowhere
the poems are burning in his hands
the crowd is screaming for more
he’s running up and down the aisle
reciting the ten commandments backwards
he’s back on stage doing acrobatics
the audience is spellbound
the judges are frantically writing
down their scores
he’s standing on his head
he’s trying to raise the dead
he’s brought in the Pope for a duet
the guy waiting his turn
looks white as a ghost
Copyright ©: A. D. Winans
A few random poems:
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Power of Peace by Rixa White
- La Nue
- The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Ancient Music poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Степанов – Неваляшка (Буква Н)
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Dr. Blacklock: Ellisland, 21st Oct., 1789
- In the spring twilight by Sappho
- Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats poem – John Keats poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Там, где лик ты светлый явишь
- The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Маяковский – Сейчас беднее нас нет… (РОСТА №742)
- Алексей Плещеев – Весна (Песни жаворонков снова)
- A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
