After yesterday
afternoon’s blue
clouds and white rain
the mockingbird
in the backyard
untied the drops from
leaves and twigs
with a long singing.
A few random poems:
- Нина Воронель – Мудрая стерва природа
- Алексей Жемчужников – Верста на старой дороге
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- The Houses by Rudyard Kipling
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Tam Glen:
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Набоков – Встреча
- Олег Бундур – Время со Светой
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Отзыв на вызов
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Всхожу на мост
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Василий Казин – Эпоха
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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

Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.