In a leaden dawn
the horseman stands silent, and
the long mane of his horse is disheveled in the wind.
Oh God, God,
horsemen should not stand still
when things are imminent.
By the burnt hedge
the girl stands silent, and
her thin skirt moves in the wind.
Oh God, God,
girls should not remain silent
when the men, hopeless and weary, grow old.

A few random poems:
- Assurances. by Walt Whitman
- Lines Written In Dejection by William Butler Yeats
- Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma
- Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
- Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- Жан де Лафонтен – Скупой, потерявший свое богатство
- Her Epitaph by William Strode
- They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- Юнна Мориц – Дрожащие губы и скрежет плаща
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
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
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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