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:
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- Федор Сологуб – В моей лампаде ясный свет
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Илья Эренбург – Я бы мог прожить совсем иначе
- Sonnet 36: Let me confess that we two must be twain by William Shakespeare
- Жан де Лафонтен – Фортуна и Дитя
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
- A Zong by William Barnes
- Наум Коржавин – Комиссары
- Николай Глазков – Про пожары
- Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
- The Freshness by Rumi
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
- Lynching
- Kimchi
- The Kingfisher poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Gradual Clearing poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Brought From Beyond poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Hairline Fracture poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cure At Porlock poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Poem about Sauerkraut
- Cabbage
- Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- White Currants poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Vespers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.