by Ajmer Rode
The Maharishi whispers:
the flesh is Maya, the lie
the soul is eternal, the truth.
The baby
inside a starved womb insists
it must come out,
needs more flesh.
The maharishi
and the baby in the womb
stare across
into each other’s eyes.
Blue Meditations
Copyright ©:
Ajmer Rode
A few random poems:
- Константин Бальмонт – Морская пани
- The Stage Coach by William Barnes
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Walking Wounded by Vernon Scannell
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- Robert Burns: Saw Ye Bonie Lesley:
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- The Gardener LXXV: At Midnight by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Soul’s Prayer by Sarojini Naidu
- Кондратий Рылеев – Переводчику «Андромахи»
- Ольга Ермолаева – Барственный Шехтель все ирисы лепит на фриз
- Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
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