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:
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Oonts by Rudyard Kipling
- Midnight poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Жан де Лафонтен – Фортуна и Дитя
- Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha} poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Soliloquy Of The Full Moon, She Being In A Mad Passion by Samuel Coleridge
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- A Comparison. Addressed To A Young Lady by William Cowper
- Владимир Британишский – Крик ворон
- To Melancholy- Written On An intensely agitated Day by Nithin Purple
- Song—The Fall of the Leaf by Robert Burns
- The Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.