I would like to swim in the Atlantic,
to swim with someone who understood
why my fear of drowning plays less dire
than my fear of bones, walking the ocean floor.
I would like to sync my stroke with a beloved.
I’d like to stand on deck on a boat
and jump in the sea and say, follow me,
and know you would. The sea is cold
and it’s deep, too, I’d joke,
standing at the edge of the boat’s bow.
A wind breathes across the sea,
joining gently the edges of time.
With a dog paddling behind me,
I want to crawl across the water
without thinking about a future.
I have set my eyes upon the shore
and I hold you there—steady, in focus—
but let you go when, from below,
a voice breaks to the surface.
A few random poems:
- Adam by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Dead Woman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
- Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- Ballade Of Sleep poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- First Day at School by Roger McGough
- Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок
- Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
- Владимир Маяковский – Современный Козьма Прутков
- Федор Сологуб – В моей лампаде ясный свет
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
- Body Script by Satish Verma
- Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
- Blistering Attack by Satish Verma
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- Battle For Madness by Satish Verma
- Bare Tongue by Satish Verma
- Backtracking by Satish Verma
- AWAY FROM HOME by Satish Verma
- Astigmatism by Satish Verma
- Armless Enemies by Satish Verma
- Animation by Satish Verma
- Ancient Sins by Satish Verma
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- An Art by Satish Verma
- Afterimages by Satish Verma
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- A DARK HOUSE by Satish Verma
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
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
A. Van Jordan, born 1965 in Akron, Ohio, USA, is a contemporary American poet and the author of four important collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award (Tia Chucha Press, 2001); M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, (2005), which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by the London Times; Quantum Lyrics, (W.W. Norton, 2007); and The Cineaste (W.W. Norton,, 2013). Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize.