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:
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Зинаида Александрова – Раз – два – три – четыре – пять
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh:
- Halo by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Lover’s Gifts XLIV: Where Is Heaven by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Winter Bluejay by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Британишский – Емуртла
- 9 Types of Lovers – The Twisted Version
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Плещеев – Смотрю на нее и любуюсь
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- Владимир Высоцкий – На острове необитаемом
- Омар Хайям – Кому там от Любви покой необходим
- Lines Written In Dejection by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Переезд через приморские Альпы
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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