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:
- Gulliver by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Бенедиктов – На пятидесятилетний юбилей Крылова
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
- Юрий Верховский – Есть имена, таинственны и стары
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о жене патриота
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бахчисарай
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий корреспондент
- On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The First Time poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: The Calf: To the Rev. James Steven, on his text, Malachi, ch. iv. vers. 2. “And ye shall go forth, and grow up, as Calves of the stall.”
- come on in, baby by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Вишневский – Тем, что в женщине разбудишь
- Berck-Plage by Sylvia Plath
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
- Sonet 42 by William Alexander
- Sonet 41 by William Alexander
- Sonet 4 by William Alexander
- Sonet 39 by William Alexander
- Sonet 38 by William Alexander
- Sonet 36 by William Alexander
- Sonet 35 by William Alexander
- Sonet 34 by William Alexander
- Sonet 33 by William Alexander
- Sonet 32 by William Alexander
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- IV: Some Verses: To The Author by William Alexander
- III: Some Verses: To M. Michaell Drayton by William Alexander
- Elegie IV: On The Death of Prince Henrie by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Twelfth Houre by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Third Houre by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Sixth Houre by William Alexander
- Doomes-Day: The Ninth Houre by William Alexander
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