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:
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
- Константин Бальмонт – Что достойно, что бесчестно
- She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
- How Distant by Philip Larkin
- Life a battlefield by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge
- Валерий Брюсов – Это матовым вечером мая
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 1 к статуе Петра Великого
- Николай Языков – Ау
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- Cavalier Tunes: Give a Rouse by Robert Browning
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Южная ночь
- Depression Before Spring by Wallace Stevens
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
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
