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:
- Омар Хайям – Если жизнь все равно неизбежно пройдет
- Ольга Седакова – Госпожа и служанка
- God’s Grandeur poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Hermit At Outermost House by Sylvia Plath
- Lover’s Gifts XXXIX: There Is a Looker-On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Come up from the Fields, Father. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Вера Полозкова – Это не прихоть, это не блажь
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Владимир Маяковский – Схема смеха
- Timothy Thomas Fortune – Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
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
- Effrontery by Satish Verma
- Earthly Wounds by Satish Verma
- Drift Wood by Satish Verma
- Dream Landing by Satish Verma
- DOWNHILL JOURNEY by Satish Verma
- Doom’s Day by Satish Verma
- Discretion by Satish Verma
- Delinquency by Satish Verma
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
- DEATH AND VISION by Satish Verma
- Cult of Lynching by Satish Verma
- Crowding by Satish Verma
- CROSSING THE DEAF by Satish Verma
- Courting Fidelity by Satish Verma
- Contraptions by Satish Verma
- Confessional Hurt by Satish Verma
- Commerce by Satish Verma
- Collecting Milkweed by Satish Verma
- BRAMBLE GATES by Satish Verma
- Botanically by Satish Verma
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.