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:
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- The Thorn by William Wordsworth
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Ode to Poetry by Walter William Safar
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- Bridesmaid From Rio by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Набоков – Путь
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Британишский – Буссоль
- On Messrs Hussey and Coffin by Phillis Wheatley
- An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems
- Nocturne by W H Auden
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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.