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:
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь перед ночью
- Top Benefits of Wearing Peridot Birthstone
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- Василий Тредиаковский – Будь жестока, будь упорна
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On Carron Iron Works:
- Good-bye by Walter de la Mare
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Явление божества
- A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- Dusk In War Time by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Геращенко
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вратарь (Льву Яшину)
- A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
- Георгий Иванов – Там, над Невой зеленоватой
- Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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.