by Ajmer Rode
The baby
just born into this
world has been greeted,
and well taken care of.
Already a variety of
labels have been
etched on him.
One for race.
One for color. One
for religion and maybe
one for a caste.
at the same time he
is told
you are born into a free world –
Congratulations!
The baby smiles and
accepts every thing in
good faith.
One day when he grows
into a boy and the boy
into man it will suddenly
dawn on him;
no body knows him
but the labels.
Blue Meditations
A few random poems:
- Germs. by Walt Whitman
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- Olney Hymn 56: Hatred Of Sin by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб голод нас не передушил к лету… (Главполитпросвет №160)
- Nearly A Valediction by Marilyn Hacker
- The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Think of the Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Таков мой подарок тебе за измену
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- Give Me Back My Rags #12 by Vasko Popa
- Sonet 47 by William Alexander
- I Heard Immanuel Singing by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Заболоцкий – Бетховен
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вова испугался
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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
