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:
- Gyrations by Satish Verma
- Зинаида Александрова – Карманный фонарик
- Владимир Маяковский – Декрет о натуральном налоге на хлеб, картофель и масличные семена
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
- Олег Бундур – Разговор
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Владимир Высоцкий – У профессиональных игроков
- Optimist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Old Times by Rixa white
- A Lover From Palestine by Mahmoud Darwish
- Гавриил Державин – На рождение царицы Гремиславы
- The General by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare
- Mother by Sachin Yadav (Pen Name: Rahul Nachhiketa)
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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.