by Ainne Frances dela Cruz
gravity suspended.
fowls dreaming of air.
so wings.
connive and beat.
so dread.
of pain and air.
so distant.
the reach from sky to earth.
so pain.
but after all the sun.
The Tower Journal Fall 2010
Copyright ©:
2011

A few random poems:
- The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
- The house where I was born (07) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Poetry and the Power of Words
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- Middle-Ages by Siegfried Sassoon
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
- The Battle of an National Icon by Norma Martiri
- Crocodile’s Toothache by Shel Silverstein
- Михаил Кузмин – Запел петух, таинственный предвестник
- Низами Гянджеви – Увы, на этой лужайке, где согнут страстью я,
- A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
- Seed Time And Harvest
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
- Untitled XIII by Yunus Emre
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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