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 Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
- The Challenge: A Court Ballad poem – Alexander Pope
- Sub Mare poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
- Notes for Canto CXX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Generals by Shel Silverstein
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Haunted. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Commination
- Николай Гумилев – Новорожденному
- Ольга Ермолаева – Герасим Грачевник
- Robert Burns: A Grace After Dinner, Extempore:
- Robert Burns: Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast:
- Sergei Esenin (Serguei Yesenin, Sergueï Essénine) – Sounds of Sorrow
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Праздник на биваке
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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