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:
- Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire by Robert Burns
- Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway by Robert Burns
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church: Who was looking up the text during sermon.
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Road-Song of the Bandar-Log by Rudyard Kipling
- A November Night by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs:
- Eclogue:–Racketèn Joe by William Barnes
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- The Dream by Siegfried Sassoon
- Yesterday’s Mishaps by Mary Etta Metcalf
- VERY DISTURBING by Satish Verma
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Sonnet 08
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
- Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
- Stars and Jasmine by Maurice Riordan
- St Patrick’s Day by Michael McGovern
- Singapore by Mary Gilmore
- Rile Me Up! by Michael D Wentworth
- Remembrance by Maya Angelou
- Raindrops by Michael Mulcahy
- Purgatory by Maxine Kumin
- Progress by Michael McGovern
- Pejar Creek by Mary Gilmore
- Passing Time by Maya Angelou
- O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
- No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest by Mary Gilmore
- New York’s Bad Dream by Matthew Abuelo
- New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo
- Nationality by Mary Gilmore
- Momma Welfare Roll by Maya Angelou
- Modest Sounds by Michael Brandon Odom
- mine danse macabre doppelganger by matthew scott harris
- Million Man March Poem by Maya Angelou
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