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:
- Perseus by Robert Hayden
- Владимир Маяковский – Продналог оставил деревне много лишка… (Главполитпросвет №157)
- Complimentary versicles to Jessie Lewars by Robert Burns
- Sonnet XVI. To Kosciusko poem – John Keats poems
- The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II by William Butler Yeats
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Омар Хайям – Египет, Рим, Китай держи ты под пятой
- Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Perfect Marriage by Vachel Lindsay
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Loneliness poem – John Betjeman poems
- On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Aunt Helen by T. S. Eliot
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Луговской – Фотограф
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
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- Spider by Sylvia Plath
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
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
