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:
- Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Языков – А. А. Елагину (Была прекрасна, весела…)
- Владимир Луговской – Лимонная ночь
- Meditation on a Bone
- To Youth by Robert Herrick
- Виталий Бакалдин – Я не рос среди берез
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- Notice by Steve Kowit
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Юлия Друнина – Я ушла из детства в грязную теплушку
- A Lady poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cloud by Sara Teasdale
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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.