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:
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Зинаида Александрова – Раз – два – три – четыре – пять
- Why the Young Men Are So Ugly by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Маяковский – Потрясающие факты
- The Weepen Leady by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: The Inventory: In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
- Sweet Briars of the Stairways by Vachel Lindsay
- Belly Good by Marge Piercy
- Attack of the Squash People by Marge Piercy
- Владимир Корнилов – Жизнь
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Orlando Furioso Canto 10 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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