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:
- Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
- Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack by Robert Burns
- William Ellery Leonard – William Ellery Leonard
- Олег Бундур – Первый пирог
- Михаил Лермонтов – Забудь опять свои надежды
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- V by Tony Harrison
- Alone by Sara Teasdale
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Sidelined by Satish Verma
- Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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