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 – Прогресс
- Robert Burns: Lines Inscribed In A Lady’s Pocket Almanac:
- The Hut
- From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Наездница
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Ballade Of The Dream poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Вера Звягинцева – Качаешься в гробу стеклянном
- Владимир Высоцкий – Упрямо я стремлюсь ко дну
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- seaport.html
- Leaves A-Vallèn by William Barnes
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