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:
- When I Was Young the Silk poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper
- In this World by Wendell Berry
- Day’s Rain Is Done poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Попугая
- Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- The Jacket by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Заболоцкий – Рыбная лавка
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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