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:
- A Rustic Seat Near The Sea by William Lisle Bowles
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- Rain by Reena Ribalow
- My Butterfly by Robert Frost
- Orlando Furioso Canto 15 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Dree Woaks by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы живём в большом селе Большие Вилы
- Владимир Набоков – Безумец
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- France, the 18th year of These States. by Walt Whitman
- The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman
- Вера Звягинцева – Не пастушка и не Психея
- Mine Sweepers by Rudyard Kipling
- Their Reposessions by Michael P Amram
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
