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:
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты видишь: я твой давний друг
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Does It Matter? by Siegfried Sassoon
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- I Kiss the Feet of Angels poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи из предсмертной записки
- Early Pla Meäte by William Barnes
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не касайся моих чертежей
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- The Starlight Night poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope
- To One Shortly to Die. by Walt Whitman
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- Fidele by William Shakespeare
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