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:
- Олег Григорьев – Мазохисту на лавке
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) by Samuel Coleridge
- Half-waking by William Allingham
- The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- To Gnedich poem – Alexander Pushkin
- English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон.
- Федор Сологуб – Зачем, скажи
- Disabled by Wilfred Owen
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Николай Гумилев – Кармен худа, коричневатый
- Юлиан Анисимов – Из Рильке
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- Hellcat
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.