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:
- New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The blanket is same always by Neelam Sinha
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Olney Hymn 50: The Christian by William Cowper
- Epilogue by Robert Lowell
- Syrinx poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
- Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is by Rabindranath Tagore
- Agatha
- Николай Заболоцкий – Человек в воде
- Platonick Love
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.