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:
- Николай Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot
- Mystic Trumpeter, The. by Walt Whitman
- Pan’s Lament by Rose Mary Boehm
- A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Ariel by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о взаимопомощи инвентарем (Главполитпросвет № 101)
- from The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Robert Burns: I Dream’d I Lay:
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- In a Spring Grove by William Allingham
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- A Love By The Sea by William Ernest Henley
- Низами Гянджеви – Жить в заботе и невзгодах, расточая зло
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.