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:
- Soul Receives From Soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Dedication To M… by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Fairies Break Their Dances poem – A. E. Housman
- Family Caregivers Have Promises to Keep
- Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
- Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change by William Shakespeare
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
- Arcades poem – John Milton poems
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
- Coole Park, 1929 by William Butler Yeats
- The Nineteenth Century And After by William Butler Yeats
- On Receipt Of My Mother’s Picture by William Cowper
- The Light By The Barn by William Stafford
- Олег Бундур – Жёлудь
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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