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:
- On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
- Николай Языков – Песнь баяна (Люблю смотреть на месяц ясной)
- Владимир Маяковский – Не вразброд, не случайно (Главполитпросвет)
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- In Springtime by Rudyard Kipling
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- Robert Burns: Another [Epigram On The Said Occasion… On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Lines to an Old Sweetheart by Robert Burns
- On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Something by Robert Creeley
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- In The Stone I Rooted
- Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill:
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.