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:
- Cologne by Paul Celan
- Константин Батюшков – На поэмы Петру Великому
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Костров – Выходец из волости лесистой
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- Ape And Coffee by Russell Edson
- Time Out To Cry by Shannen Wrass
- Alexander
- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Progress of Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- The Human Tragedy ACT I poem – Alfred Austin
- Beautiful Balmerino by William Topaz McGonagall
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet CXLV by William Shakespeare
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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