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 Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- A Hundred Collars by Robert Frost
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Владимир Высоцкий – Шляпник
- Яков Полонский – На закате
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
- Rise, O Days. by Walt Whitman
- Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Ночь безлунная звездами)
- Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
- Where’s the Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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