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:
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Виктор Гончаров – Больной, как будто бы гранату
- English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. Bellona. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- Crapulous Impression poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лежит камень в степи
- Gone
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Sunset And Sunrise (Translated From Owen) by William Cowper
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
- Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet:
- Омар Хайям – Что меня ожидает, неведомо мне
- Нина Воронель – Суд современников не значит ни черта
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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.