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:
- William Ellery Leonard – William Ellery Leonard
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Степан Щипачев – День
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Григорьев – Схватили за ногу правую
- Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window by William Strode
- Robert Burns: My Highland Lassie, O:
- One Lonely Afternoon by Russell Edson
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не для ангелов и рая
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- For The Country by Philip Levine
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.