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 Elizabeth Ward Perkins poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Chaap Tilak poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Name poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Maid Vor My Bride by William Barnes
- Федор Сологуб – Высока луна Господня
- The Fairies Break Their Dances poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я знаю, люблю я бесплодно
- The Novelist by W H Auden
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- Personal Talk by William Wordsworth
- Glacier poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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