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:
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- Implosions
- A Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- The Thraldom
- On a Fan of the Author’s Design poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Blake’s Victory poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Black Rook In Rainy Weather by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бездна
- Off the Turnpike poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Longing by Sara Teasdale
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.