After a long
muggy
hanging
day
the raindrops
started so
sparse
the bumblebee flew
between
them home
A few random poems:
- Василий Жуковский – Был у меня товарищ
- Владимир Маяковский – Типографы книги делают… (РОСТА №241)
- Ольга Ермолаева – В кирзовых сапогах скользить по горной глине
- come on in, baby by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Гумилев – Мужик
- Lines Inscribed under Fergusson’s Portrait by Robert Burns
- Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
- Юлия Друнина – Я, признаться, сберечь не сумела шинели
- A Wife In London by Thomas Hardy
- Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
- Lincoln by Vachel Lindsay
- The gypsy song by Sunil Sharma
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Михаил Кузмин – Вот после ржавых львов и рева
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оплавляются свечи на старинный паркет
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.html
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.