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:
- Омар Хайям – Египет, Рим, Китай держи ты под пятой
- When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare
- The River by Mark Olynyk
- Владимир Маяковский – Весь провел советский план… (Главполитпросвет №41)
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
- Владимир Набоков – Простая песня, грусть простая
- Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок
- Jock O The Side poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Poetry Reading At West Point by William Matthews
- Николай Гумилев – Какою музыкой мой слух взволнован
- attack_on_the_ad_man.html
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о планах
- Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Зинаида Александрова – Давайте, девочки, купаться
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