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:
- My Heart Goes Out by Stevie Smith
- Нина Воронель – Бабий стих
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Илья Эренбург – О Москве
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
- Олег Бундур – Февраль
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- Vanity Fair by Sylvia Plath
- said, unsaid by tulip
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (Когда душа изнемогала)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Человек и его Изображение
- Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Asking For Roses by Robert Frost
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.