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:
- The battle of fire by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Homer’s Seeing-Eye Dog by William Matthews
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- The Song of the Dead by Rudyard Kipling
- Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
- Jet by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Луговской – Та, которую я знал
- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
- A Serenade poem – Alexander Pushkin
- May Morning by Stephen Vincent Benet
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Владимир Корнилов – Погодинка
- The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Engagements by Satish Verma
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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