by Ajmer Rode
The grey sands
invite me to follow the
receding sea water
to recognize a clam shell
that could be the house
where my ancestors began.
I walk slowly with respect.
Blue Meditations
A few random poems:
- The Starlight Night poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Виталий Сивяков – Крещенье
- Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
- Closure by Suchi Gaur
- Владимир Корнилов – Звезды
- Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
- Keepen Up O’ Chris’mas by William Barnes
- absent-mindedness; or I Dream of Spices by Raj Arumugam
- The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
- Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground by Stephen Crane
- Кондратий Рылеев – Гусь и змия
- The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Robert Burns: On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe:
- Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак
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
