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:
- Book Eleventh: France [concluded] by William Wordsworth
- The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Британишский – Читая Ремарка
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Circulation by Raymond Carver
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Tryin’ On Clothes by Shel Silverstein
- In An Underground Dressing Station by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 37: As a decrepit father takes delight by William Shakespeare
- Despairing Cries. by Walt Whitman
- Auld Maitland poem – Andrew Lang poems
- My mother was telling me by Vinko Kalinic
- Mary, Pity Women! by Rudyard Kipling
- Temporary City by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Новелла Матвеева – Иней
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
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Excelsis poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In A Time Of Dearth poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Granadilla poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Flute-Priest Song For Rain poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Aliens poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Autum by T.S. Hulme
- America
- The Hanging Tree
- Wolves by Mary Bone
- Wind poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- White and Green poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Vintage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Venus Transiens poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Venetian Glass poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Two Travellers in the Place Vendome poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To John Keats poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Elizabeth Ward Perkins 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
