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:
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton : An Invitation Into The Country by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Crazy Jane On God by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Григорьев – Как бумажный пароходик
- Владимир Степанов – Жучка и тучка
- Николай Языков – Песня (От сердца дружные с вином)
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- Олег Бундур – Быстро расту
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Разговор
- Crossing the Frontier
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- Валерий Брюсов – Годы в былом
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 Hosts
- 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
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