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:
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- A Song About Myself poem – John Keats poems
- Li Po drowns by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Глазков – Пятнадцать лет спустя
- Владимир Маяковский – Слегка нахальные стихи товарищам из ЭМКАХИ
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Heedless O’ My Love by William Barnes
- Life by Marvin Bell
- In Ithica poem – Andrew Lang poems
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- Новелла Матвеева – Величие?
- The Horn Of Egremont Castle by William Wordsworth
- love by Raj Arumugam
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Владимир Высоцкий – Серенада Соловья-разбойника
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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