The Riddle

I dressed a lot of persons

I patched clothes to many others

The rich as well as the poor

I took off thorns

To the sick I pierced boils

I also pierced plenty of ears

Most people need me

They can’t do without me

I adorned too many brides

I made their grooms look handsome

So that they please their admirers

I protected the miserable

I covered and wormed them

With the suitable cloth

I cared a lot for the wrecked

I provided them with food in plenty

I realized later on

That I was doing only good

But as if I was digging in water

No profit coming in return

From the ungrateful man

Yet I kept accomplishing my duty

What I said is an example

I took it from our rich repertory

All the words I’ve used

Are about my doings

And those of the needle

Which remains naked.

ahcene mariche

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Mother’s Death 1981 by Michael S Wilson by Poetry In English
• Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Migration of the Mind by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Meeting with Te Rauparaha by Michael O’Leary by Poetry In English
• Matrimony by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• March on, Yes! by Miles by Poetry In English
• Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary by Poetry In English
• Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez by Poetry In English
• Live With Me On Earth Under the Invisible Daylight Moon by Milton Acorn by Poetry In English
• Life of Paradoxes by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Languaculture by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• Key and Knife (Two Haiku) by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• (Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje
• In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan by Poetry In English
• If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• If I Got You by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• I Wish This Lovely Time Never Ends by Miraj Patel by Poetry In English
• I sink as I sail magnificently by Michael Nikoletseas by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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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.

 

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