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:
- By the Lake by Tu Fu
- Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
- Mystic by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
- Олег Бундур – Я вырасту, мама
- Кондратий Рылеев – Любовь к отчизне
- The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
- Sweetheart by M. T. Metutera
- Николай Гумилев – Моя мечта летит к далекому Парижу
- Drinking While Driving by Raymond Carver
- The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
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
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- Lying Down by Robert Desnos
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Identity of Images by Robert Desnos
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
- Zero by Robert Creeley
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- The Way by Robert Creeley
- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- The Rain by Robert Creeley
- The Mirror by Robert Creeley
- The Innocence by Robert Creeley
- The Conspiracy by Robert Creeley
- The Carnival by Robert Creeley
- Song by Robert Creeley
- Something by Robert Creeley
- Other by Robert Creeley
- Myself by Robert Creeley
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
