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:
- The Net Of Memory
- Владимир Маяковский – Не только для того, чтоб тебя накормить… (Главполитпросвет №2)
- Because I’ve Learned by William Ellery Leonard
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Robert Burns: Green Grow The Rashes: A Fragment
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Старой знакомке
- I bring hope and love by Raj Arumugam
- The Encounter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- Владимир Маяковский – Пилсудский
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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