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:
- Days Are Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster
- The Last Laugh poem – John Betjeman poems
- How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Сашки Червня
- Николай Глазков – Девятое мая
- Remorseful Apology by Robert Burns
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Faun by Sylvia Plath
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- Федор Тютчев – Как верно здравый смысл народа
- The Masks of Love
- Sonnet. On A Picture Of Leander poem – John Keats poems
- Better Not Ask Me by Shel Silverstein
- Love thy Country and Do a useful Act – Gurazada by Vijay Narayana Chilaka
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.