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:
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Khan Zadas Song On The Hillside
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Burial Of Moliere poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Девятое мая
- A Song Of The Princess by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Юлия Друнина – Хорошо молодое лицо
- Clouds Above The Sea by Philip Levine
- Itri poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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