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.

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A few random 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 

• Sixteen Dead Men by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Shepherd And Goatherd by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• September 1913 by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Sailing To Byzantium by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Running To Paradise by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Roger Casement by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• Responsibilities; Introduction by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Host Of The Air by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Heart Of The Woman by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Hawk by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Happy Townland by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Gyres by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Ghost Of Roger Casement by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fool By The Roadside by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Folly Of Being Comforted by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fisherman by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fish by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
• The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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