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:
- Summer poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Waly, Waly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Envoi poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
- On Calais Sands poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
- The Further Bank by Rabindranath Tagore
- Степан Щипачев – Тебе
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hot and Cold by Roald Dahl
- “`Were I a Poet, I would dwell” poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
- On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Goddess by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
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
- Sweetheart by M. T. Metutera
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 8 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 7 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 6 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 15 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 14 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 12 by Luis A. Estale
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 10 by Luis A. Estable
- So Soon Done! by Luis Estable
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.