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:
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
- The Glutton by Sylvia Plath
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- Наум Коржавин – Нелепые ваши затеи
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song) by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- General William Booth Enters into Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Effrontery by Satish Verma
- Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
- O mother, O Merry by Nikunj Sharma
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Тютчев – Как ни бесилося злоречье
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
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
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
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