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:
- Sonnet CII by William Shakespeare
- You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy
- death039s_claim.html
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сыт я по горло, до подбородка
- Irony poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lonely Poets by Ndue Ukaj
- Power of Peace by Rixa White
- English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Rhyme of Joyous Garde. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
- The End of the World
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Федор Сологуб – Знаю знанием последним
- The Lost Star — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует неделя ремонта! (РОСТА № 294)
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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