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:
- Exiles by Marilyn Hacker
- I See so Deeply Within Myself by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Ballad First
- O You by Satish Verma
- The Three Monuments by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сказка о несчастных сказочных персонажах
- Владимир Маяковский – Война окончена… (РОСТА №898)
- Robert Burns: The Belles Of Mauchline:
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- Омар Хайям – Когда от жизненных освобожусь я пут
- The Kind Moon by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 113: Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind by William Shakespeare
- River by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Гиппиус – Писать стихи
- Владимир Маяковский – Чаеуправление (реклама)
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
- One Year by Sharon Olds
- Crab by Sharon Olds
- A Week Later by Sharon Olds
- 1954 by Sharon Olds
- Winter by Shaunna Harper
- Twilight by Shaunna Harper
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Saison Noir by Shaunna Harper
- River by Shaunna Harper
- Prelude by Shaunna Harper
- Passing by Shaunna Harper
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- Metamorphosis by Shaunna Harper
- La Fleur by Shaunna Harper
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- In Measures by Shaunna Harper
- Hidebound by Shaunna Harper
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- Ellipsis by Shaunna Harper
- Chanson D’Amour by Shaunna Harper
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