After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home
A few random poems:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
- Birthday party blunder by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 44. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Halls grew darker poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- In Memory Of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
- Владимир Маяковский – Неразбериха
- A Painting Morning
- Николай Заболоцкий – Детство
- Guenevere by Sara Teasdale
- The Times Are Nightfall poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Written In A Quarrel by William Cowper
- Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
- This Day, O Soul. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Yon Wild Mossy Mountains:
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
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Important thing’s in life by Martin Smith
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- If Only by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- He Said To by Marvin Bell
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
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.