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:
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Thanksgiving by William Ernest Henley
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Earth! my Likeness! by Walt Whitman
- Nightfall In The City Of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
- Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
- Николай Заболоцкий – Как мыши с котом воевали
- Владимир Британишский – На Марсовом поле
- Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
- The Judges Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Юнна Мориц – На смерть Джульетты
- The beauty of the heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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
