Poems about Poetry
In Between the Strophes
by Marcin Malek
I’ll never be a king of the brave
The vain poet – I lied, forgive me if you care
I went calmly through all the stages of madness
The last it’s the tongue on a stranger face
And believe that man can turn in to a bird
To look at people and things
Without the need of rising the gaze
What a disruptive and ugly input
– Acquired romanticism
To have eyes placed on occiput
And after all, to see against the stiff neck
How veils of the wild cranes are waving
Across the sunset fires and dense shades
I’ll never be a king of the brave
Timorous rhymer – I laughed, who cares
That I went through all the stages of foolishness
The last it’s the thought that anyone chased
Man, dog or a worm
Will find an asylum
Somewhere in between the strophes
Copyright ©:
Marcin Malek
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 31: Thy bosom is endearèd with all hearts by William Shakespeare
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- Summa poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Алексей Плещеев – Сердцу
- Владимир Орлов – Летит корабль
- Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse by William Shakespeare
- Elijah by Peter Bardsley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о Земле
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Константин Ваншенкин – Городские костры
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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