by Ajmer Rode
The human mind
is essentially qualitative.
As you know,
we are easily excited by
pinks and purples,
triangles and circles
and we endlessly argue
over true and false,
right and wrong.
But quantitative analyses
rarely touch our souls.
Numbers were invented mainly
by men to trick each other.
I am almost certain women had
nothing to do with them. They
had more vital tasks, survival for example,
at hand.
But playing with big numbers
could be interesting.
In fact it could be really fun. Say
if I were to sit on a gravel pit and
count one billion pebbles non-stop
it will take me some 14 years;
or if I were to count what Africa
owes to rich
foreigners – some 200 billion
dollars,
it is impossible. I will have to
be born 40 times and do nothing
but keep counting 24 hours.
Although things could be simpler on a
smaller scale. Suppose as a result
of the debt, five million children die
every year , as in fact they do,
and each dying child cries
a minimum of 100 times a day
there would be a trillion cries
floating around
in the atmosphere just over a
period of five years.
Remember a sound wave once
generated never ceases to exist
in one form or the other,
and never escapes the atmosphere.
Now one fine morning, even if
one of these cries suddenly hits
you, it will shatter your soul into
a billion pieces. It will take
14 years to gather
the pieces and put them back
into one piece.
On the other hand, may be all the
trillion cries could hit your soul
and nothing would happen.
Poems At My Doorstep
Copyright ©:
Ajmer Rode
A few random poems:
- The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Николай Языков – Е. А. Свербеевой (Мысль неразгульного поэта)
- Robert Burns: To Dr. Maxwell: On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.
- Sonnet Vi
- In Praise of Laziness by William Wycherley
- Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Семик
- Modest Sounds by Michael Brandon Odom
- Владимир Луговской – Почтовый переулок
- Dining-Room Tea by Rupert Brooke
- I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
- First Sight by Philip Larkin
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- Diya {original title is Greek, Delta-iota-psi-alpha} poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
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
- Robert Burns: A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge:
- Robert Burns: No Churchman Am I:
- Robert Burns: I’ll Go And Be A Sodger:
- Robert Burns: Raging Fortune:
- Robert Burns: Fickle Fortune: Fragment
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]:
- Robert Burns Country: O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day:
- Robert Burns: In The Prospect Of Death:
- Robert Burns: First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The :
- Robert Burns: Paraphrase Of The First Psalm:
- Robert Burns: Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish:
- Robert Burns: Winter: A Dirge:
- Robert Burns: Mary Morison:
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peggy Alison:
- Robert Burns: Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The:
- Robert Burns: Here’s To Thy Health:
- Robert Burns Country: Ronalds Of The Bennals, The:
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- Erotic comics by Hanz Kovacq, porn comic books by known illustrators – continued
- Hitler, a poem about Hitler
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
