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:
- Олег Бундур – Из магазина
- Narva and Mored by Thomas Chatterton
- Зинаида Александрова – В гости к бабушке
- The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- The Primrose by Thomas Carew
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
- The Need To Love
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ребенку
- Robert Burns: The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton:
- Eclogue:–The ‘Lotments by William Barnes
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- Станислав Востоков – Не умею
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Yoga and Love – Part I
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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