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:
- To All and Everything by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
- Robert Burns: Versified Reply To An Invitation:
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Тютчев – Анненковой (D’une fille du Nord, chetive et languissante)
- Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin
- Crush by Muhereza Louis
- The Snake
- On the Same poem – John Milton poems
- Hemingwayan waves of time by Ndue Ukaj
- Praying Hurriedly by Satish Verma
- To A Child Dancing In The Wind by William Butler Yeats
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- A Drunken Man’s Praise Of Sobriety by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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