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:
- Goblins Of The Steppes poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Queen’s Marie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – Песня (Кто сколько ни хлопочет)
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прометей
- Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок
- София Парнок – Белой ночью
- Ode on Solitude poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Британишский – Из рассказов отца
- Владимир Британишский – Первая послевоенная осень
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Visor’d. by Walt Whitman
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Было с белым много дел… (Главполитпросвет №44)
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
