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:
- Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
- Eclogue:–The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Британишский – Философы! Не верьте островам
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- Новелла Матвеева – Смех Фавна
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- Robert Burns: I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town:
- Шекспир – Меня не радует твоя печаль – Сонет 34
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- The Death Of Huss poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько чудес за туманами кроется
- Walking The Marshland by Stephen Dunn
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.