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 Souless Singer poem – Alfred Austin
- On His Eightieth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- How Much Earth by Philip Levine
- Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- The Emigrant Mother by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- Learn Numbers With Fun Counting Rhymes For Kids
- But I Was Looking At The Permanent Stars by Wilfred Owen
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
- Иннокентий Анненский – Гораций
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Literary Cubism – A Non-Structured Structure For Twenty-first Century Storytelling
- Николай Тихонов – Когда людям советским
- Shadow Of Liberty by Vattacharja Chandan
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
- What is Creativity Anyway and How Come the Human Mind is So Good at It?
- Poetry and the Power of Words
- Stop Looking For Broken Heart Poems and Quotes and Win Your Ex Back Instead!
- How to Become an Inspiration
- Finding Your Creative Self
- English Literature for Shaping Your Ideas
- Towards Understanding, Through Poetry
- Creativity Leads to Family Enrichment
- Heal Your Broken Heart With Heart Touching Poems
- Poetry of Our Time
- Quietness, Something to Consider… Or Not (2 Poems)
- Kids and Teens and the Phone: Creative Solutions for Your Family
- Teaching Children to Write by Free Writing
- The Dawn Of American Literature
- Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
- The Key Role of Creativity in Advertising
- Development of Indian English Poetry
- Funny Networking Poem and Do’s and Don’ts
- City Times and Other Poems
- Flowers notebook
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