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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Тропики
- the_prison_of_the_past.html
- Иван Киуру – Теленок Леня
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- Sonnet 112: Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill by William Shakespeare
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Hemlock Furrows
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- An Expostulation to Lord King by Thomas Moore
- Bag-Snatching In Dublin by Stevie Smith
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Haven Woones Fortune A-Twold by William Barnes
- Михаил Кузмин – Врач мудрый нам открыл секрет природы
- Алексей Жемчужников – Ты прав
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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