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:
- On Receiving A Curious Shell poem – John Keats poems
- Алишер Навои – Не в камфарной ли одежде этот кипарис прямой
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Солнце садится
- The Heritage by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
- A Tale of the Sea by William Topaz McGonagall
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Николай Языков – Элегии (Скажи: когда)
- Михаил Лермонтов – Черкесы
- Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh by Shel Silverstein
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
- discovery.html
- day_dream.html
- cocoon_for_a_skeleton.html
- cinema_screen.html
- chaplin.html
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- black_on_black.html
- black_morning_lovesong.html
- birch_tree.html
- betrayal.html
- bells_pool_and_sleep.html
- attack_on_the_ad_man.html
- any_man_speaks.html
- woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
- was_then.html
- vestiges.html
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- the_poet_angels_who_came_to_dinner.html
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- the_man_that_poetry_made.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