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:
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
- The humble earthen lamp by Sunil Sharma
- rice_pudding.html
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обновление
- The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- Channels by Shel Silverstein
- A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 by Walt Whitman
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- An Autumn Picture poem – Alfred Austin
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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
