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:
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- The Hero by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Кэрролла
- I Have a Fire for You in my Mouth by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In The Depths Of Solitude by Tupac Shakur
- Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, наводчик
- Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
