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 Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Parnell by William Butler Yeats
- I Want Those Words Today by Pandian Chelliah
- Нина Воронель – Меня пугает власть моя над миром
- I had a little nut-tree, by Roald Dahl
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
- Accidents by Russell Edson
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point by Siegfried Sassoon
- Doomes-Day: The Third Houre by William Alexander
- Юнна Мориц – Балтийское лето
- An Expostulation to Lord King by Thomas Moore
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
- Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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