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:
- Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns
 - As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
 - Николай Глазков – Поэтоград
 - Владимир Маяковский – Бродвей
 - Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
 - A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
 - The Gardener LXXV: At Midnight by Rabindranath Tagore
 - Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
 - The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
 - Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought by William Shakespeare
 - Trendy Madness In Fashion Meccas
 - Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents:
 - Madeira From The Sea by Sara Teasdale
 - The Fascination Of What’s Difficult by William Butler Yeats
 
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
- Demeter And Persephone poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Dedication poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Cradle Song poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come not when I am dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come Into The Garden, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Claribel poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - by_an_evolutionist.html
 - Break, Break, Break poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Boadicea poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Blow, Bugle, Blow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Beautiful City poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Battle Of Brunanburgh poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Audley Court poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Ask Me No More poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - And ask ye why these sad tears stream? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Amphion poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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