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:
- My Child Wafts Peace by Yehuda Amichai
- Джон Донн – Когда я с ней, с моим бесценным кладом
- We put the urn aboard ship by Sappho
- Альфред де Мюссе – Майская ночь
- Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
- British Freedom by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Banks Of Nith:
- The Haughty Snail-King by Vachel Lindsay
- Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- ah, happy crow by Raj Arumugam
- Михаил Лермонтов – Без вас хочу сказать вам много
- The Princess In The Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Ode to the Memory of Burns by Thomas Campbell
- Жан де Лафонтен – Старый Кот и Мышонок
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.