this is a bewildered
and bashful bat
seeing with its ears
flying without feathers
biting, chewing, nd sucking
instead of beaking or pecking
dreaming on its back
more than on its belly
although a perfectly normal mammal
he has been trying hard
to make a bird’s living
never wanting to deceive
nor attention to receive
forgetting all human associations
i wonder one thing about this bat
are you a little comic error of nature
or rather a tragic wonder of life?
(sept.2, 2004)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- Morning Express by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты будешь ждать
- The Day Of Wrath / Dies Iræ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- The Cottage Hospital poem – John Betjeman poems
- Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Глухарь
- Mr. Apollinax by T. S. Eliot
- I hear the roar of a Harley… by River Urke
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Британишский – Из рассказов отца
- Beguiling by Roger McGough
- Наум Коржавин – Еж и Заяц
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