In the foreground we see time and life
swept in a race
toward the left hand side of the picture
where shore meets shore.
But that meeting place
isn’t represented;
it doesn’t occur on the canvas.
For the other side of the bay
is Heaven and Eternity,
with a bleak white haze over its mountains.
And the immense water of L’Estaque is a go-between
for minute rowboats.

A few random poems:
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночь в лесу
- Николай Гербель – Изюмцам
- Polyphemus poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К женщине
- Джон Донн – Любовная наука
- My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Stinging Nettle poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Британишский – Уронили, потеряли
- Making Light Of It by Philip Levine
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Fragment – Wee Willie Gray (Song) by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Ни к другу не взывай, ни к небесам
- Ode to the Bat , a Sonnet
- Владимир Вишневский – Звучит воинственно: “носки”
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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