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:
- Олег Григорьев – Я сам себя в пальто одел
- Олег Бундур – Эпидемия
- Aphrodite – The Birth by Uma Maheswari Anandane
- I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
- Welcome
- Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Lovely Polly Stewart:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не дыми, голова трещит
- Виктор Гончаров – Когда тебя бессонной ночью
- Владимир Маяковский – Проч руки от Китая
- To A Castillan Song by Sara Teasdale
- Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама журнала “Огонек”
- The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Вера Павлова – Снег
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.