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:
- The Last Man by Thomas Campbell
- The Carnival by Robert Creeley
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
- Владимир Высоцкий – Один смотрел, другой орал
- Fidelity by William Wordsworth
- Степан Щипачев – Ровеснику
- Synchronicity by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Василий Жуковский – Государыне великой княгине на рождение
- Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Оттепель
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует III интернационал! (РОСТА № 140)
- As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
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
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
- Afridi Love
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