After yesterday
afternoon’s blue
clouds and white rain
the mockingbird
in the backyard
untied the drops from
leaves and twigs
with a long singing.
A few random poems:
- In the Philippines, August Is a Celebration of Buwan Ng Wika
- On the Field of Kulicovo poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Федор Сологуб – Тепло мне потому, что мой уютный дом
- Станислав Востоков – Не умею
- To The Royal Society
- The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- Egotist poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Константин Ваншенкин – Ехал я в штабном автомобиле
- A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees
- A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ by William Butler Yeats
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- Beginning my Studies. by Walt Whitman
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
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
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- Толстой Алексей Николаевич стихи: Читать стихотворения Алексея Толстого – Список произведений, стихов поэта на Poetry Monster
- The Hecatomb to his Mistress by John Cleveland
- To the State of Love. Or the Senses’ Festival. By John Cleveland
- I love you
- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- Dog racing
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Who of you ever
- Аnything can happen
- Outside the Window, Snow
- You must once
- February 23
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Море волнуется, манит к себе
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Кипение
- Каждому сроку – свой путь
- Каждый день и каждый миг судьбу благодарю
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.