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:
- Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
- All The Time In The World by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Гумилев – Лаос
- Ольга Высотская – Я зубы стисну, губы закушу
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- Gimmick In A Geisha by Vaishnavi Prakash
- An Old Man’s Thought of School. by Walt Whitman
- oh no – not another love poem! by Raj Arumugam
- Wardens Of The Wave poem – Alfred Austin
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Macer : A Character poem – Alexander Pope
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Goodbye by Robert Creeley
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
- The Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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