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:
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – Если ты, к примеру, кролик с шелковистыми ушами
- The Enemies Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о двух красивых автомобилях
- Федор Сологуб – Скоро солнце встанет
- A Postcard From The Volcano by Wallace Stevens
- Today by Siegfried Sassoon
- Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
- In Plaster by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Гесперидовы сады
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
