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:
- The White Road Up Athirt The Hill by William Barnes
- Life a chess game by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- Francesca poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Sonnet 08 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам вчера прислали из рук вон плохую весть
- Гавриил Державин – Осень
- An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Dream by Sylvia Plath
- My Mistress Commanding Me to Return Her Letters. by Thomas Carew
- Olney Hymn 24: Prayer For Children by William Cowper
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.