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:
- Composed While The Author Was Engaged In Writing A Tract Occasioned By The Convention Of Cintra by William Wordsworth
- Аля Кудряшева – Рыбный вальсок
- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин”
- Ballade Of Old Plays poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Blow of an ax by Yosa Buson
- Николай Языков – Песня (Всему человечеству)
- In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Virtuous Love by Rajendra Ojha
- Владимир Набоков – Путь
- Adventures of King Robert the Bruce by William Topaz McGonagall
- Степан Щипачев – Лил дождь осенний
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Стефан Малларме – Появление
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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