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:
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- The Merciful Hand by Vachel Lindsay
- Низами Гянджеви – О милый друг, давно пленен я
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
- On Returning To England poem – Alfred Austin
- Низами Гянджеви – Где путь в кумирню
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сослуживцу
- Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV by Sir Philip Sidney
- O Star of France. by Walt Whitman
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- The Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman by William Wordsworth
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
- Владимир Британишский – Греч: Встреча с Батюшковым
- Иван Мятлев – Лютня
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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