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:
- Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Илья Эренбург – Легкий сон
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не могу ни выпить, ни забыться
- Sir Gawaine And The Green Knight by Yvor Winters
- A Dedication
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Люблю я сельский мой приют
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- The Death Of Myth-Making by Sylvia Plath
- On Journeys Through The States. by Walt Whitman
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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
