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:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Знакомая картина
- After Hearing a Waltz poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
- Back Home by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Sonnet CLIII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Гиляровский – На Севере
- Scotland by MB Moshe
- Ярослав Смеляков – В защиту домино
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- Two sparrows and my heart by Nizar Sartawi
- Do You Remember 1914 Grandad? by Steve Sant
- The Fairies’ Siege by Rudyard Kipling
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. In Imitation Of Shakspeare by William Cowper
- Another Song by Philip Levine
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
- One Year by Sharon Olds
- Crab by Sharon Olds
- A Week Later by Sharon Olds
- 1954 by Sharon Olds
- Winter by Shaunna Harper
- Twilight by Shaunna Harper
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Saison Noir by Shaunna Harper
- River by Shaunna Harper
- Prelude by Shaunna Harper
- Passing by Shaunna Harper
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- Metamorphosis by Shaunna Harper
- La Fleur by Shaunna Harper
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- In Measures by Shaunna Harper
- Hidebound by Shaunna Harper
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- Ellipsis by Shaunna Harper
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
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