by Ajmer Rode
The grey sands
invite me to follow the
receding sea water
to recognize a clam shell
that could be the house
where my ancestors began.
I walk slowly with respect.
Blue Meditations

A few random poems:
- The First Part: Sonnet 3 – Ye who so curiously do paint your thoughts, by William Drummond
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Седакова – С нежностью и глубиной
- Testimony by Seamus Heaney
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: Why, Why Tell The Lover: Fragment,
- Power Of Music by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям
- Sonnet 49: Against that time, if ever that time come by William Shakespeare
- Evening by Olivia Lewis
- I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore
- ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Roslin Inn:
- Георгий Иванов – Теперь тебя не уничтожат
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
- A Snow-White Lily poem – Alfred Austin
- A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
- A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
- A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
- A Reply To A Pessimist poem – Alfred Austin
- A Rare Guest poem – Alfred Austin
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
- A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
- A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- A Meeting poem – Alfred Austin
- A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
- A Letter From Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- A Last Request poem – Alfred Austin
- A Fragment poem – Alfred Austin
- A Florilegium poem – Alfred Austin
- A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
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