After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home
A few random poems:
- Rip van Winkle’s dream by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Second-Election Day
- Ольга Седакова – Хильдегарда
- Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
- The Parrot by William Cowper
- Аля Кудряшева – Молитва
- Юнна Мориц – Котик
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- Into My Heart an Air that Kills poem – A. E. Housman
- Николай Глазков – Поэтоград
- Crystal by Paul Celan
- Ольга Берггольц – Полуночная
- Robert Burns: Lines To Mr. John Kennedy:
- Civil War Songs
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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

Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.