When I was young the silk
of my mind
hard as a peony head
unfurled
and wind bloomed the parachute:
The air-head tugged me
up,
tore my roots loose and drove
high, so high
I want to touch down now
and taste the ground
I want to take in
my silk
and ask where I am
before it is too late to know
A few random poems:
- Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
- Алексей Ржевский – Портрет
- English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон.
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean by William Wordsworth
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- Hurrahing In Harvest poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Evasion. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
- Яков Полонский – Чайка
- Address to the Toothache by Robert Burns
- Ballad for Gloom poem – Ezra Pound poems
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- happiness.html
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.