Epitaph On A Disturber Of His Times
by A. S. J. Tessimond
We expected the violin’s finger on the upturned nerve;
Its importunate cry, too laxly curved:
And you drew us an oboe-outline, clean and acute;
Unadorned statement, accurately carved.
We expected the screen, the background for reverie
Which cloudforms usefully weave:
And you built the immaculate, adamant, blue-green steel
Arch of a balanced wave.
We expected a pool with flowers to diffuse and break
The child-round face of the mirrored moon:
And you blazed a rock-path, begun near the sun, to be finished
By the trained and intrepid feet of men.
A few random poems:
- Василий Курочкин – Мчит меня в твои объятья
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Владимир Маяковский – Раек (РОСТА №8)
- Song of the Redwood-Tree. by Walt Whitman
- A Prayer in the Prospect of Death by Robert Burns
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Jewish Family In A Small Valley Opposite St. Goar, Upon The Rhine by William Wordsworth
- The Lads in Their Hundreds poem – A. E. Housman
- The Poet poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Poets
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- Love Preparing to Fly poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Иван Козлов – Умирающая Эрменгарда
- Омар Хайям – Мне с похмелья лекарство одно принеси
- Heaven and You by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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