by Alex Gross
You’ve asked me already.
Yet you want to know.
What need have you to question
Everything I say and do?
Being conventional is overrated.
Why? you ask. Because
I must be myself. Do I
Tell you to learn to play
An Instrument that no
One has heard of?
The answer is no.
What’s the point?
You want to know now.
I’ll tell you the point.
The point is,
Stop asking me why.
Alex Gross
Copyright ©:
2010 by Alex Gross
A few random poems:
- Strike, Churl poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Шляпник
- Алишер Навои – О, мне бы крылья
- Георгий Иванов – Теплятся жаркие свечи
- Николай Карамзин – Граф Гваринос
- Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
- Олег Бундур – Папино влияние
- Яков Полонский – Белая ночь
- Олег Григорьев – Люди
- Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In Midnight Sleep. by Walt Whitman
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
