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:
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
- Олег Григорьев – Вкусно от меда во рте
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen:
- One Lonely Afternoon by Russell Edson
- Владимир Степанов – Что мы Родиной зовём
- Olney Hymn 56: Hatred Of Sin by William Cowper
- Олег Григорьев – Вечером девочка Мила
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
- To the Bartholdi Statue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Омар Хайям – Если любишь, то стойко разлуку терпи
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
- May You Be Like An Evergreen by Ronald G. Auguste
- Marks Of Disrespect by Graham Rowlands
- Magic Markers by Rose Mary Boehm
- Mad Pirate Marmaduke by Ross D Tyler
- Lunch by Ross D Tyler
- Life Of a Broke Person by Russell James
- Kiss by Ruth Padel
- Jewels Should Sparkle Daily by Ronald G. Auguste
- I See Your Beauty by Ronald G. Auguste
- Herodotus in Egypt Remeber Delos by Ruth Padel
- Flamenco Flamingo by Ross D Tyler
- Falling Action by Ruth Madievsky
- Daryl, My Son by Ronald G. Auguste
- Conversation With My Heart by Russ Pergram
- Conversation 23: On Cause by Rosmarie Waldrop
- Concrete Backyard by Ryssel Guzman
- Camelot & The Greek Widow by Graham Rowlands
- Breath by Ryssel Guzman
- Bobsled by Ruth Madievsky
- Blue Glass by Ross D Tyler
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