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:
- Юлия Друнина – Ржавчина
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton by William Cowper
- Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
- Pity by Sara Teasdale
- The Moment I knew my Life had Changed by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Нина Воронель – Бывает, что вещи меня ненавидят
- Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome 2 (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour poem – John Keats poems
- Hyperion. Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Tree Knowledge
- Гавриил Державин – Амур и Психея
- Валерий Брюсов – Две испанских песенки
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.