June Sick Room
by A. S. J. Tessimond
The birds’ shrill fluting
Beats on the pink blind,
Pierces the pink blind
At whose edge fumble the sun’s
Fingers till one obtrudes
And stirs the thick motes.
The room is a close box of pink warmth.
The minutes click.
A man picks across the street
With a metal-pointed stick.
Three clocks drop each twelve pennies
On the drom of noon.
The birds end.
A child’s cry pricks the hush.
The wind plucks at a leaf.
The birds rebegin.

A few random poems:
- Maya by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125
- Holidays by Nicolene Kissinger
- Юрий Коринец – О счастье
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride? by William Shakespeare
- American Soil by Walter William Safar
- Be With Those Who Help Your Being by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- Sonnet CXXXIV by William Shakespeare
- I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
- After-Thought by William Wordsworth
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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