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:
- The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам вчера прислали из рук вон плохую весть
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- I love you
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
- Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
- The Bayadere
- The Vaïces That Be Gone by William Barnes
- Sleep by Rabindranath Tagore
- Олег Бундур – Из магазина
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб голод нас не передушил к лету… (Главполитпросвет №160)
- I Went Down into the Desert by Vachel Lindsay
- Аля Кудряшева – Тишина
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
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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