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 Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- Waking up on a rainy morning by Preeth Nambiar
- Илья Эренбург – Жилье в горах, как всякое жилье
- Омар Хайям – День каждый услаждай вином
- Tell Me a Story by Robert Penn Warren
- Sonnet CXI by William Shakespeare
- Advent by Patrick Kavanagh
- To Be Blind
- Teacher
- The Illusion of Love by Sarojini Naidu
- Олег Бундур – Железное здоровье
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда бы
- The Slow Pacific Swell by Yvor Winters
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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