Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea,
And still the sea is salt.
A few random poems:
- There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Tablet
- Four Days In Vermont by Robert Creeley
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale
- An Astrologer’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Hey, Ca’ Thro’ – Boat song:
- Control by Sidney Lanier
- All’s Well! by John Oxenham
- A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- As the Time Draws Nigh. by Walt Whitman
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
