we had to read the instructions as we sank.
In a hand like carded lace. Not nuclear warheads
on the sea’s floor nor the violet flow over the reactor
will outlive this sorrowful rhyme. Vain halo! My project
becalmed, I’ll find I’ve built a monument
more passing than a breeze. It will cost us,
Pobrecito. We can’t buy a prayer. Did you call
my name or was that the floorboard
wheezing? These memories won’t get any bigger,
will they? I think something is coming that will
vastly improve our quietude. I’m growing
snow crystals from vapor in anticipation and praying
for the velvet-cushioned kneeler that I need to pray.
I made this little sound for you to wait in.
                    2015,  Barely Composed (W. W. Norton & Company)        
              Copyright ©: 
                    Alice Fulton        
        

A few random poems:
- Wings
 - Love Of Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
 - Владимир Костров – Смуту и безверье не приемль
 - Virginibus Puerisque
 - Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ о Климе, купившем заем, и Прове, не подумавшем о счастье своем
 - Chris’mas Invitation by William Barnes
 - Олег Чупров – Вечером поздним потянет к Печоре
 - Colbert Report: Australia by Raj Arumugam
 - Fabrication Of Ancestors
 - Among The Narcissi by Sylvia Plath
 - Омар Хайям – Дай мне влаги хмельной, укрепляющей дух
 - Endless Time by Rabindranath Tagore
 - The Rice Was Under Water
 - Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns by Robert Burns
 - Exmoor poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 
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
- Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book III poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book II poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion. Book I poem – John Keats poems
 - Hyperion, A Vision: Attempted Reconstruction Of The Poem poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment. Welcome Joy, And Welcome Sorrow poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment Of “The Castle Builder.” poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
 - Fragment: Modern Love poem – John Keats poems
 - Faery Songs poem – John Keats poems
 - Extracts From An Opera poem – John Keats poems
 - Epistle To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - Endymion: Book I poem – John Keats poems
 - Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
 - Dawlish Fair poem – John Keats poems
 - Character Of Charles Brown poem – John Keats poems
 - Calidore: A Fragment poem – John Keats poems
 - Ben Nevis: A Dialogue poem – John Keats poems
 - Asleep! O Sleep A Little While, White Pearl! poem – John Keats poems
 
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