The reeds give
way to the
wind and give
the wind away
A few random poems:
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
- Ольга Берггольц – Украина
- Омар Хайям – Чем пустыми мечтами себя донимать
- Clarence by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: The Charming Month Of May:
- Виталий Тунников – Заюшкина избушка
- Ольга Берггольц – Надежда
- Mother Teresa by Raj Napal
- An Old Man’s Winter Night by Robert Frost
- A Song Of The Princess by Sara Teasdale
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats
- On A March Day by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more by William Shakespeare
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.