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:
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- Ashore
- Валерий Брюсов – Исполненное обещание романтическая поэма
- The Kiss by Sara Teasdale
- Address to the shade of Thomson by Robert Burns
- A Girl’s Garden by Robert Frost
- Show It At The Beach by Shel Silverstein
- Your Eyes by Omair Bhat
- The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag by Rabindranath Tagore
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Venus, on a fur by Witty Fay
- In An Underground Dressing Station by Siegfried Sassoon
- Telescopes In The Square by Graham Rowlands
- Wind in the Beechwood by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Easter Egg Hunt by Roger Turner
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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