Epitaph For Our Children
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Blame us for these who were cradled and rocked in our chaos;
Watching our sidelong watching, fearing our fear;
Playing their blind-man’s-bluff in our gutted mansions,
Their follow-my-leader on a stair that ended in air.

A few random poems:
- An Essay on Man: Epistle II poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Высоцкий – В плен, приказ, не сдаваться
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
- Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок
- Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
- AMBITION by Robert Herrick
- Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind by William Shakespeare
- She by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 5 к статуе Петра Великого
- Аля Кудряшева – Вечер большого дня
- Joy-Bells by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epigram—The Keekin Glass by Robert Burns
- Forfeiture
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
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Physically Hearted
- On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Not my poem
- My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Mugging (I) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Making The Lion For All It’s Got — A Ballad poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- It Would poem – Alice Notley
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Human Tendency
- Gift poem – Alice Notley
- Feast of the Eyes
- City of My Childhood
- Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Borow
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