by Ajmer Rode
The Maharishi whispers:
the flesh is Maya, the lie
the soul is eternal, the truth.
The baby
inside a starved womb insists
it must come out,
needs more flesh.
The maharishi
and the baby in the womb
stare across
into each other’s eyes.
Blue Meditations
Copyright ©:
Ajmer Rode

A few random poems:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Случай на таможне
- Sonnet CXXII by William Shakespeare
- life begins tomorrow by Raj Arumugam
- The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin
- Eclogue VIII by Virgil
- Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me:
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- The Distress’d Travellers; or, Labour in Vain by William Cowper
- To A Cricket by Michael McGovern
- Николай Гумилев – На берегу моря
- Grow Up: Time to Give Up Your YA Books
- Новелла Матвеева – Набрела на правильную строчку
- Игорь Северянин – Щит-солнце
- But Outer Space by Robert Frost
- Ок Мельникова – Плацкарт-блюз
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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