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 Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Альфред де Мюссе – Что так усиленно сердце больное
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- Awaken by Mark Miller
- Dark House by Sylvia Plath
- I Am Of Ireland by William Butler Yeats
- Edward Lear by W H Auden
- Written at Stonehenge by Thomas Warton
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Take My Hands
- Answers by Mark Strand
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
- A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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