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:
- Cold Iron by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 13: O, that you were your self! But, love, you are by William Shakespeare
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Poor Honest Men by Rudyard Kipling
- A Bard’s Epitaph by Robert Burns
- The Old Revolutionary’s Room by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare
- Yew-Trees by William Wordsworth
- The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
- Mother o’ Mine by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Орлов – Добрый день
- Владимир Солоухин – Яблоко
- Collecting Milkweed by Satish Verma
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не люблю тебя
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
