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:
- Федор Сологуб – Терцинами писать как будто очень трудно
- Middle Age
- Sonnet To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Нe называй меня поэтом)
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- Death by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Sweethearts of the Year by Vachel Lindsay
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- How cruel are the parents by Robert Burns
- At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Dawn by Yosa Buson
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.