by Ajmer Rode
Take my two hands
make eight feet of them
give them to the spider I
soaked in hot water in
my kitchen sink.
I will hide my arms
in long sleeves, will
finish the last painting with
brush in my teeth
but take my two hands.
If the spider
curled up into
silence, dies
she will weave her next web
in my soul
will travel with me
through all the lives
eighty four thousand
and more.
Leela, 1999
A few random poems:
- A man went before a strange God by Stephen Crane
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Hector The Collector by Shel Silverstein
- It Is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Ласточки над обрывом
- Arion poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Upon a Lady’s Fall Over a Stile, Gotten by Running From Her Love by William Wycherley
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Epigram—Thanks for a National Victory by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
- Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- I Loved
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- Николай Карамзин – Тацит
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
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
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