by Ajmer Rode
Take my two hands
make eight feet of them
give them to the spider I
soaked in hot water in
my kitchen sink.
I will hide my arms
in long sleeves, will
finish the last painting with
brush in my teeth
but take my two hands.
If the spider
curled up into
silence, dies
she will weave her next web
in my soul
will travel with me
through all the lives
eighty four thousand
and more.
Leela, 1999

A few random poems:
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- Михаил Кузмин – В ранний утра час покидал Милет я
- Extempore in the Court of Session by Robert Burns
- Карл Сэндберг – Три слова
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Snake Pit by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich by Vachel Lindsay
- I Thank You, Mum by Raj Napal
- Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
- The Story of Uriah by Rudyard Kipling
- The Temple poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Universe poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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