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:
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 29. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Элегия (Мысль в разлуке с вещим сном)
- Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
- Olney Hymn 22: Prayer For A Blessing In The Young by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Юлия Жадовская – Чем ярче шумный пир
- Anactoria by Sappho
- Владимир Высоцкий – Куплеты нечистой силы
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Соловьев – Знамение
- The Poet And Imagination
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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