When the crow
lands, the
tip of the sprung spruce
bough weighs
so low, the
system so friction-free,
the bobbing lasts
way past any
interest in the subject.
A few random poems:
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
- Speaking To You (From Rock Bottom) by Michael Ondaatje
- Николай Некрасов – Внимая ужасам войны
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession poem – Alexander Pope
- Age by Robert Creeley
- Quicksand Years. by Walt Whitman
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Ярослав Смеляков – Шинель
- Алексей Плещеев – Тобой лишь ясны дни мои
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- Ольга Берггольц – Наш сад
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.