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:
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- The Chipmunk by R. L. Karlowsky
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- The Hope of the Resurrection by Vachel Lindsay
- Fiesta Melons by Sylvia Plath
- Samson Agonistes poem – John Milton poems
- The Lady’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- As We Like It by W H Auden
- days of quiet by Raj Arumugam
- To A Lady On The Death Of The Three Relations by Phillis Wheatley
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живу я в лучшем из миров
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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