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:
- Love And Death by Sara Teasdale
- America by Phillis Wheatley
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Ольга Седакова – Ветер прощанья
- I know you will remember ME by Neelam Sinha
- The Poor Lover to His Rich Mistress about to Marry His Coxcombly Rival by William Wycherley
- Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog by William Wordsworth
- I Know A Man by Yehuda Amichai
- Владислав Крапивин – В южных морях и у севера дальнего
- Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Маяковский – Слегка нахальные стихи товарищам из ЭМКАХИ
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- You Are Mine by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Николай Заболоцкий – Счастливый день
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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