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:
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- Hemlock Furrows
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- III: Some Verses: To M. Michaell Drayton by William Alexander
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- The Nautical Why poem – Amy Nawrocki poems | Poems and Poetry
- Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
- Pigeon Haiku by Violet Uram
- Иван Коневской – В небывалое
- Tyburn by Ramesh Anand
- The Old Huntsman by Siegfried Sassoon
- phantasm.html
- Intorduction to the Songs of Experience by William Blake
- Desert Places by Robert Frost
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
- Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
- Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
- Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
- Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
- Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
- Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
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.