Before being turned to ashes
by the wrath of the thunderbolt,
he had forced the steer of the tempest
to kneel before his might.
To test
the faith of old
he had worn out his teeth
on the locks of ancient gates.
On the most out-of-the way paths
he struggled,
an unexpected passer-by
whose voice every thicket and bridge
recognized.

A few random poems:
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: The Highland Balou:
- The Hunter by Shel Silverstein
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- Church And State by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time by William Shakespeare
- Everything He Did, He Did In Jest by stanley wilkin
- A Hand-Mirror. by Walt Whitman
- An Elegy poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Arcadian Winter by Willa Cather
- WARMING UP by Satish Verma
- Winters!!! by Aditya Kumar
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- The Last Leap
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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