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:
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peggy Alison:
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- Oh Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast by Robert Burns
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- My Heart’s In The Highlands by Robert Burns
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Books poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- On the Threshold poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- Locked Away by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Bicycle Ride by Pat Mullan
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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