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:
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Salutation poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Illinois Village by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version
- Sher Afzul
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Child’s Park Stones by Sylvia Plath
- Race by Vasko Popa
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- Business Girls poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Music’s Empire poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Происхождение
- Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire by William Shakespeare
- An Act of Faith by Talha Jafri
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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