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:
- Вера Павлова – Телефонные кнопки
- Юрий Галансков – Рванулось пламя из ствола
- Rosslyn To The Prime Minister by Graham Rowlands
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Британишский – По волхову
- Polly In A Porny by Shel Silverstein
- Ballade Of Autumn poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- An Enigma by William Cowper
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
- Desert Places by Robert Frost
- The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit by Vachel Lindsay
- The Gardener XL: An Unbelieving Smile by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
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