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:
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Diving Into The Wreck
- My Soviet Passport by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Sir Richard’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Григорьев – Однажды Сережа и Оля
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Death Divine by Nithin Purple
- Lyric written in 1830 poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Снились двое товарищей по Салехарду
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Spring in New Hampshire by William Shakespeare
- To One Shortly to Die. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Знать бы все до конца бы и сразу б
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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