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 Маяковский – Подлиза
- Владимир Высоцкий – Смотрины
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots by William Wordsworth
- Наум Коржавин – От дурачеств, от ума ли
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- “I Know The Stars” by Sara Teasdale
- The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: La Pucelle by T. Wignesan.
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- Омар Хайям – Если жизнь все равно неизбежно пройдет
- Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Корнилов – Прежнее слово
- not_love_perhaps.html
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
- Set out by Mahak Raithatha S
- Rita And The Rifle by Mahmoud Darwish
- Psalm Three by Mahmoud Darwish
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
- Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
- Pequeña niña mía by Mara Romero Torres
- Passport by Mahmoud Darwish
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Ontological by Maggie Anderson
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
- October Journey by Margaret Walker
- Nube by Manolo Arriola
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- My Mother by Mahmoud Darwish
- For My People by Margaret Walker
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