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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Осенняя песня
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- Владислав Ходасевич – Обо всем в одних стихах не скажешь
- Eucalyptus Grove, morning by Neal Dachstadter
- On a Certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Ballade Of Truisms by William Ernest Henley
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- To a Lady, Who Made Me a Present of a Silver Pen by William Somervile
- Because by Sara Teasdale
- Monsters under the bed by Thomas J Camp
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 3 к статуе Петра Великого
- Нина Воронель – Высокосный год
- Examination at the Womb-Door by Ted Hughes
- Apostroph. by Walt Whitman
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 by Walter William Safar
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- Forest by Walter William Safar
- Cry of the Betrayed Earth by Walter William Safar
- Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
- Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
- American Soil by Walter William Safar
- America by Walter William Safar
- Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
- A window into the world by Walter William Safar
- A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- At the Lake Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Duckweed Pond by Wang Wei
- Bamboo Adobe by Wang Wei
- Deer Enclosure by Wang Wei
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Farewell by Wang Wei
- For P’ei Ti by Wang Wei
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
