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:
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика
- Angels by Russell Edson
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Song—A Fiddler in the North by Robert Burns
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine:
- Dusk In War Time by Sara Teasdale
- The Brook poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Игорь Северянин – Шутливая рондель
- Dear Traffic Signal by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Dinner Date by Rainbow Reed
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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