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:
- A Prayer by Sara Teasdale
- Conversation Galante by T. S. Eliot
- Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth
- Free Poetry Competitions – Prepare to Win The Next Poetry Competition That You Enter!
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Хмельное счастье мое очнется
- Николай Глазков – Чтоб улыбалось счастье
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- Street Circus poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Заботливая бабушка
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
- Song of the Exposition. by Walt Whitman
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
- TEMPORARY AND NOW by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Swimming Pool by Piera Chen
- Summer by Pornika Ganguly
- Still Life by Piera Chen
- So Long! by Precious Tahula
- Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Second Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- Reveille by Primo Levi
- Poetic Dilemma by Pawan Kumar
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- Untitled by Quincy Troupe
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Reveille by Primo Levi
- Snail Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- My Bed is Covered Yellow by Peter Orlovsky
- Second Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- First Poem by Peter Orlovsky
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