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:
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- Letter to my father by Preeth Nambiar
- Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
- Михаил Кузмин – Я знаю вас не понаслышке
- November 1813 by William Wordsworth
- Юрий Верховский – Вариации на тему Пушкина
- Robin Hood And The Potter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Владислав Ходасевич – О, если б в этот час желанного покоя
- Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
- Иван Варавва – Соловей на веточке
- Олег Бундур – Праздник встречи
- Владимир Маяковский – Проч руки от Китая
- Sonnet 128: How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st by William Shakespeare
- Journey with God by Raj Napal
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
