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:
- Аля Кудряшева – Не бойся, милый
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Fleeting Thoughts by Mac McGovern
- Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again by Vachel Lindsay
- Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Британишский – В “Онегине”, глава седьмая
- Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- Any Lifetime by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Eclogue IV by Virgil
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.