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:
- Paradise Regained: The Third Book poem – John Milton poems
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat by Robert Burns
- In A Wood by Thomas Hardy
- Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton:
- A Winter Evening poem – Alexander Pushkin
- A Dainty Thing’s The Villanelle by William Ernest Henley
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- Autumn by William Morris
- Robert Burns: I Murder Hate:
- the_christening.html
- Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare
- What Is Woman But A Song! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Autumn Song by W H Auden
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
- Forex Trading Strategies – Divining the Mysteries of Candlestick Charts and Patterns
- Numbers and the Bible
- Quality Customer Service – How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- Ethiopia – Lalibela
- Different World Views of Art
- Distributive Trade II – The Wholesaler
- 12 Surefire Brainstorming Techniques
- Factors Affecting the Labor Market – Determination of Wages and The Activities of Trade Unions
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- The Cosmic Eggs
- What Are Solar Roofing Shingles?
- Howard Stern’s Wine
- Style Ideas For Vests For Women
- A Life Of Lorenzo Da Ponte:Talent Flies; Practical Reason Walks
- How to Make Money Online Writing and Selling eBooks
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- God’s Work Ethics
- Article Writing – Revealed – 4 Priceless Methods to Make Money Through Article Writing
- 71 Ways For A Writer To Make Money
- Secrets of Academic Success: Passion
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.