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:
- Her Eyes Are Wild by William Wordsworth
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Плещеев – Она и он
- Sail Away by Rabindranath Tagore
- Under The Round Tower by William Butler Yeats
- Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young by William Cowper
- May-Night by William Ellery Leonard
- Mrs. Mouse has glasses by R. L. KARLOWSKY
- Robert Burns: Braw Lads O’ Galla Water:
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- A Man Young And Old: I. First Love by William Butler Yeats
- As Like The Woman As You Can by William Ernest Henley
- Olney Hymn 45: The Happy Change by William Cowper
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
