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:
- O God
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- Вера Полозкова – Мало ли кто
- Yasmini
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Answers by Mark Strand
- Юнна Мориц – Зимнее
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Gardener XXIV: Do Not Keep to Yourself by Rabindranath Tagore
- Bereavement by William Lisle Bowles
- Look Down, Fair Moon. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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