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:
- Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
- Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg
- To Vernon Lee poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- You Know Where You Did Despise poem – Alexander Pope
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 3 – Look how the flower by William Drummond
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ласточка
- Dirge for Two Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor by Phillis Wheatley
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Oh Day Of Fire And Sun by Sara Teasdale
- “`The smiling slopes with olive groves bedecked” poem – Alfred Austin
- Lord, what a Beloved is mine! by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The City Limits poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Homing by Satish Verma
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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