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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – День и две ночи
- The Street Sounds to the Soldiers’ Tread poem – A. E. Housman
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- The Promise of the Morning Star poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Толстой – Ушкуйник
- Владимир Луговской – Фотограф
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Doors Of The Temple poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама, 1928
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Second-Election Day
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- John Bleäke At Hwome At Night by William Barnes
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
