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:
- Follies of War by Michael Levy
- Юлия Жадовская – Говорят придет пора
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимназист или строитель
- I Begin To Think by Satish Verma
- Denis poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Further Bank by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epistle to Dr. Blacklock by Robert Burns
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наброски песен к несостоявшемуся спектаклю по сказкам Шергина
- The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore
- Music by Walter de la Mare
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Владимир Корнилов – Кривая
- The Odyssey poem – Andrew Lang poems
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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