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:
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Coming to Terms by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Ольга Берггольц – Сибиринка
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Nativity by William Butler Yeats
- The Amaranth by Vachel Lindsay
- София Парнок – Сегодня с неба день поспешней
- Teaken In Apples by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Марш оловянных солдатиков
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Человек
- Haiku: The Bluebird and the Sky by Monty Gilmer
- Владимир Маяковский – России
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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
