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:
- Шекспир – По совести скажи – Сонет 10
- The Captive Trumpeter by William Somervile
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove
- Владимир Корнилов – Происхождение
- “‘Tis because, though in dusky bower” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Костров – Новогодняя ночь
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Calling All Angels
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick
- Алишер Навои – Не в камфарной ли одежде этот кипарис прямой
- Валерий Брюсов – Из ада изведенные (Астарта! Астарта! И ты посмеялась)
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Versified Reply To An Invitation:
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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.