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:
- Владимир Лифшиц – Сверчок
- Birth Of A Flower by Riss Ryker
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Song. Mediocrity in love rejected. by Thomas Carew
- A Circular by Thomas Hardy
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала
- Hail, Twilight, Sovereign Of One Peaceful Hour by William Wordsworth
- Юнна Мориц – В цирке
- I, or Someone Like Me by Marvin Bell
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
- My prayers must meet a brazen heaven poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – О, жизнь
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish
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
- Teacher
- 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
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
