A voice
by Adonis
Mihyar is a face
betrayed by its lovers.
Mihyar is bells
without chinning
Mihyar is inscribed upon the faces,
a song which visits us secretly
on white, exiled roads.
Mihyar is bells of wanderers
in this Galilean land.
Songs of Mihyar the Damamscene
Copyright ©:
translated by Kamal Abu-Deeb

A few random poems:
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Тютчев – Князю Горчакову
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
- Mrs Moon by Roger McGough
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- In Midnight Sleep. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Марине
- Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser
- Юлия Друнина – Убивали молодость мою
- Николай Заболоцкий – Горийская симфония
- The Drèven O’ The Common by William Barnes
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Гиляровский – На Севере
- Far Within Us #4 by Vasko Popa
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
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- Lying Down by Robert Desnos
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
- Zero by Robert Creeley
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- The Way by Robert Creeley
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- The Rain by Robert Creeley
- The Mirror by Robert Creeley
- The Innocence by Robert Creeley
- The Conspiracy by Robert Creeley
- The Carnival by Robert Creeley
- Song by Robert Creeley
- Something by Robert Creeley
- Other by Robert Creeley
- Myself by Robert Creeley
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