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:
- Children’s Games by William Carlos Williams
- Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Не смешно ли весь век по копейке копить
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка-представление орлёнком Эдом Атаки Гризли
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- Олег Бундур – Всё живёт
- The Song Maker by Sara Teasdale
- Butterflies by Siegfried Sassoon
- Nevermore, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: Nevermore by T. Wignesan
- Николай Языков – Песня (Когда умру, смиренно совершите)
- Fragment: Modern Love poem – John Keats poems
- Юлий Даниэль – Ах, недостреляли, недобили
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Attack of the Squash People by Marge Piercy
- Finis by Walter Savage Landor
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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