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:
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Владимир Солоухин – Теперь-то уж плакать нечего
- Владимир Высоцкий – Он не вернулся из боя
- Magi by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Кузмин – Врач мудрый нам открыл секрет природы
- Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Наум Коржавин – От судьбы никуда не уйти
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Маяковский – Вперед, комсомольцы
- Dance Figure poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems
- Finding by Rupert Brooke
- Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
- Love
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
- Slant by Stephen Dunn
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
- Named by Stephen Dunn
- Landscape At The End Of The Century by Stephen Dunn
- I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
- Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
- Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
- At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
- Allegory Of The Cave by Stephen Dunn
- The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The General Public by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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