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:
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- Woman by Manmohan Acharya
- An Ode to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Юрий Галансков – Мне больно
- Perseus by Robert Hayden
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – После смерти Ленина
- Now List to my Morning’s Romanza. by Walt Whitman
- In the New Garden in all the Parts. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Высотская стихи: лучшие стихотворения для детей Высотской – Poetry Monster
- I Am Of Ireland by William Butler Yeats
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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