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:
- Epistle to William Simson by Robert Burns
- How Distant by Philip Larkin
- Sonet 47 by William Alexander
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Берггольц – Сибиринка
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- The Kingfisher poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Британишский – Молния ударяет
- Владимир Маяковский – Тревога
- “Brave Schill! By Death Delivered” by William Wordsworth
- The Callous Statues by Shahida Latif
- Milagros Retenidos poem – Ana Chig poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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