June Sick Room
by A. S. J. Tessimond
The birds’ shrill fluting
Beats on the pink blind,
Pierces the pink blind
At whose edge fumble the sun’s
Fingers till one obtrudes
And stirs the thick motes.
The room is a close box of pink warmth.
The minutes click.
A man picks across the street
With a metal-pointed stick.
Three clocks drop each twelve pennies
On the drom of noon.
The birds end.
A child’s cry pricks the hush.
The wind plucks at a leaf.
The birds rebegin.
A few random poems:
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Степан Щипачев – Ровеснику
- The Nympholept
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму XIV
- A Three-Part Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- Алексей Жемчужников – Современному гражданину
- Кондратий Рылеев – Меня пленяли наши деды
- O Living Always—Always Dying. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Корнилов – Сорок лет спустя
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Journey with God by Raj Napal
- Нина Пикулева – Ой, да чья ж это девчушка
- A Hundred Collars by Robert Frost
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
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
- Valhalla
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