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:
- Mediums. by Walt Whitman
- Who Fancied What A Pretty Sight by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Седакова – Кот, бабочка, свеча
- Her Epitaph by William Strode
- Альфред де Мюссе – Как лепестки весеннего цветка
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Маяковский – Чудеса
- Tim, An Irish Terrier by Winifred Mary Letts
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
- Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery by Robert Burns
- Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Testing The Bomb by Shel Silverstein
- The Carpenter’s Son by Sara Teasdale
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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