Wet City Night
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Light drunkenly reels into shadow;
Blurs, slurs uneasily;
Slides off the eyeballs:
The segments shatter.
Tree-branches cut arc-light in ragged
Fluttering wet strips.
The cup of the sky-sign is filled too full;
It slushes wine over.
The street-lamps dance a tarentella
And zigzag down the street:
They lift and fly away
In a wind of lights.

A few random poems:
- “Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise” poem – Alfred Austin
- Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
- a maiden’s broken heart by Raj Arumugam
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
- No quise detenerte by Luz del Alba Nicola
- One Night as I did Wander by Robert Burns
- Louisa: After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Послание пролетарским поэтам
- Омар Хайям – Миг придёт, и смерть исторгнет жадно
- I hear it was Charged against Me. by Walt Whitman
- In The Evening
- Sonnet 18 poem – John Milton poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
- Lovers since Eternity by Preeth Nambiar
- My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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