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:
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- News, lassies, news (Song) by Robert Burns
- Юнна Мориц – Дрожащие губы и скрежет плаща
- My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- New York at Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Three Beggars by William Butler Yeats
- The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Pity by Sara Teasdale
- An Hymn To The Morning by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Над синим мраком ночи длинной
- Аля Кудряшева – Про ангелов
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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.