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:
- This Will Not Win Him by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonnet 57: Being your slave, what should I do but tend by William Shakespeare
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Behold this Swarthy Face. by Walt Whitman
- Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
- Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: Third Epistle To J. Lapraik:
- Dream Girl by Rabindranath Tagore
- doughnuts for sale by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge:
- In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Костров – То в ночи она вспыхнет, как спичка
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
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 Story Of Our Lives by Mark Strand
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- Your Poems on My Patio by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- Words Unspoken by Mark Olynyk
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- Woman With Parasol by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
- What is Poetry? by Mark Olynyk
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
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