Houses
by A. S. J. Tessimond
People who are afraid of themselves
Multiply themselves into families
And so divide themselves
And so become less afraid.
People who might have to go out
Into clanging strangers’ laughter,
Crowd under roofs, make compacts
To no more than smile at each other.
People who might meet their own faces
Or surprise their own voices in doorways
Build themselves rooms without mirrors
And live between walls without echoes.
People who might meet other faces
And unknown voices round corners
Build themselves rooms all mirrors
And live between walls all echoes.
People who are afraid to go naked
Clothe themselves in families, houses,
But are still afraid of death
Because death one day will undress them.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Колыбельная
- Minneapolipstick by Rachel McKibbens
- Михаил Кузмин – В раскосый блеск зеркал забросив сети
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Детский театр из собственной квартирки
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Cut by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Огарев – Тебе я счастья не давал довольно
- Жан де Лафонтен – Фортуна и Дитя
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Impromptu on Carron Iron Works by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Тучкины штучки
- The Hock-cart, or Harvest Home by Robert Herrick
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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