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:
- Freedom poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Геннадий Айги – БЕЗ НАЗВАНИЯ
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Twelve Months After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Вера Павлова – Время уступать место
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мельник, Сын его и Осел
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- The Return of Persephone
- Most Sweet it is by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – В его саду растет рябина
- Нина Пикулева – Читайте, дети
- Olney Hymn 4: Jehovah-Nissi: The Lord My Banner by William Cowper
- The Promise of the Morning Star poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Actor by Preeth Nambiar
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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