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:
- Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare
- Юлия Друнина – Есть время любить
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- The Death Of Grant poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – Так еще ни разу не забыла
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- The Temple poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To the Duke of Marlborough, upon His Removal From All His Places by William Somervile
- I shall not be a shame by Torm Gardson
- Before by Robert Browning
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
- Epigram on Rough Roads by Robert Burns
- Яков Полонский – Братья
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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