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:
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- On the Death of a Young Gentleman by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
- Meadowsweet by William Allingham
- ‘Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love by William Wordsworth
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Нина Воронель – С моим житьем, поспешным и тряпичным
- Robert Burns: The Chevalier’s Lament:
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- Thoughts. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Сердобольский – Алмазная снежинка
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
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 Sea by Martin Zakovski
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- The Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Slag by Mark Base
- The Remains by Mark Strand
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
