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:
- Goodbat Nightman by Roger McGough
- Олег Бундур – И до моря 15 шагов
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper.
- Юлия Друнина – Да, сердце часто ошибалось
- Владимир Маяковский – Нынче бар в России нет… (Главполитпросвет №37)
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- The Self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
- A Study by Wang Wei
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- Владимир Степанов – Тула-город мастеров
- An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Бундур – Играю в школьном спектакле
- Как живёшь ветеран милиции
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
