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:
- Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- As I Watch’d the Ploughman Ploughing. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Ты шепчешь мне
- On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- On The Eating Of Mice by Russell Edson
- Михаил Лермонтов – Венеция
- The Garden by Abraham Cowley
- Омар Хайям – Если все государства, вблизи и вдали
- Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
- After Sunset by William Allingham
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Exit by Rita Dove
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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