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:
- Sonnet Xiii
- Borow
- Степан Щипачев – За селом синел далекий лес
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Babul poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Илья Эренбург – Жилье в горах, как всякое жилье
- Sonnet CXXI by William Shakespeare
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Indian Wedding Customs – Eastern and Western Indian Wedding Traditions
- Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Dog and the Bear by William Somervile
- Валерий Брюсов – Это я
- The house where I was born (07) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Николай Некрасов – Я не люблю иронии твоей
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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.