After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home
A few random poems:
- At The Wedding March poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Вишневский – Я желаю вам громких успехов
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Robert Burns: O Leave Novels:
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
- My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Avenue In Savernake Forest by William Lisle Bowles
- Charms by William Henry Davies
- The Boa Constrictor Song by Shel Silverstein
- In Defense poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Empowering Women in Gambia
- Haltering by Satish Verma
- Lover’s Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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.