by Ahmad Reza Rahimi
A voice in the morning
calling from far away
a muezzin
and the Night
drawing all its weapons
to the hoard
the sun
painting the east in red
and I
sleeping on my bed!

A few random poems:
- Владимир Набоков – Путь
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мой Гамлет
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Владимир Маяковский – Чье рождество
- The Heart Of The Woman by William Butler Yeats
- Where fair Sabrina’s wand’ring currents flow by William Somervile
- As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
- Last Words by Philip Levine
- Flowers Of The Dust by John Oxenham
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Звездочет
- Parallel Lies by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Жан Расин – Британик
- Attitude To A Miss by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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