by Ahmad Reza Rahimi
A voice in the morning
calling from far away
a muezzin
and the Night
drawing all its weapons
to the hoard
the sun
painting the east in red
and I
sleeping on my bed!
A few random poems:
- Yet Gentle Will the Griffin Be by Vachel Lindsay
- Feast of the Eyes
- Lines Addressed To Dr. Darwin, Author Of The ‘Botanic Garden.’ by William Cowper
- A Letter to a Live Poet by Rupert Brooke
- “While with fond rapture and amaze” by Tobias Smollett
- As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Олег Сердобольский – Два кораблика
- An Eare-Stringe by William Strode
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
- Tiny Warrior by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- The Solitary by Sara Teasdale
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
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
- Иван Бунин – Не видно птиц
- Иван Бунин – За рекой луга зазеленели
- Иван Бунин – Надпись на могильной плите
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- Иван Бунин – Безнадежность
- Иван Бунин – Беру твою руку и долго смотрю
- Иван Бунин – Балагула
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- Иван Бунин – Алёнушка
- Иван Бунин – Пустыня, грусть в степных просторах
- Иван Барков – Выбор
- Иван Барков – Вопрос без ответу
- Иван Барков – Венерино оружие
- Иван Барков – Улика подьячего
- Иван Барков – Торжественным воротам
- Иван Барков – Стихи с матом без цензуры: читать матерные нецензурные стихотворения Баркова – Poetry Monster
- Исикава Такубоку – Дом
- Ирина Токмакова – Каша
- Иосиф Бродский – Бюст Тиберия
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
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
