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:
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Sir Richard’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Владислав Крапивин – На Диком Западе
- Олег Григорьев – Если где-то кому-то плачется
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Жрец искусства
- Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman
- Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy
- The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mama I’ll Sing One For You by Shel Silverstein
- Ольга Берггольц – Огонь, и воду, и медные трубы
- The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- Василий Жуковский – Ахилл
- new_land.html
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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