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:
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 85. Oh For the Swords of Former Time. Томас Мур.
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
- Me Imperturbe. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Триптих 1949 года
- Как небо сходится с водой
- Владимир Костров – Поток ушедших лет
- To Aphrodite by Sappho
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- Николай Языков – Песни (Счастлив, кому судьбою дан)
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Brasilia by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Лермонтов – Ангел
- Hound Voice by William Butler Yeats
- Lover’s Gifts XIX: It Is Written in the Book by Rabindranath Tagore
- Kite by Vattacharja Chandan
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 CXXX: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet CXXX by William Shakespeare
- Winter by William Shakespeare
- When to the sessions of sweet silent thought (Sonnet 30) by William Shakespeare
- When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare
- When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (Sonnet 29) by William Shakespeare
- Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
- Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
- Three Songs by William Shakespeare
- The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- Spring in New Hampshire by William Shakespeare
- Sonnets CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXVI by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXV by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet LXIV: When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d by William Shakespeare
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