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:
- Шекспир – Мне показалось, что была зима – Сонет 97
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вопросы к морю
- Love, Romance, Relationship: Some Poetic Scenes!
- Crossroads by Suchi Gaur
- Before a Midnight Breaks in Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Высоцкий – Здесь сидел ты, Валет
- Юлия Друнина – В семнадцать
- Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
- The Heart Chirps by Ramesh Anand
- THE IRISH GUARDS by Rudyard Kipling
- The Scythians poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Carol of a Father by Samuel Hazo
- A Bucolic Betwixt Two; Lacon and Thyrsis by Robert Herrick
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
- Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns
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 War Films by Sir Henry Newbolt
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists by Vachel Lindsay
- Repression of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- The Paint-Kings by Washington Allston
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Eccentricity by Washington Allston
- Art by Washington Allston
- America To Great Britain by Washington Allston
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- The Furies by Weldon Kees
- The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- The Beach by Weldon Kees
- Round by Weldon Kees
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