The drop seeps whole
from boulder-lichen
or ledge moss and drops,
joining, to trickle,
run, fall, dash,
sprawl in held deeps,
to rush shallows, spill
thin through heights,
but then, edging,
to eddy aside, nothing
of all but nothing’s
curl of motion spent.
A few random poems:
- Arrow through the bellybutton poem
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
- The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
- Every day I bear a burden by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- On Woman by William Butler Yeats
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Омар Хайям – Не зли других и сам не злись
- Иван Киуру – Оазис
- Николай Заболоцкий – Это было давно
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- Николай Некрасов – Внимая ужасам войны
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- “Behold Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con” by William Wordsworth
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.