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
- In the Country by William Henry Davies
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Dog After Love by Yehuda Amichai
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- “Could I but leave men wiser by my song ” poem – Alfred Austin
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- On A Drop Of Dew poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Гроза
- Sea of lavender ( 4 pre-summer poems ) by Vasil Slavov
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math by Robert Burns
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- The Fancy Feäir At Maïden Newton by William Barnes
- Steeds of Autumn by Todd H. C. Fischer
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
