Last Word To Childhood
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Ice-cold fear has slowly decreased
As my bones have grown, my height increased.
Though I shiver in snow of dreams, I shall never
Freeze again in a noonday terror.
I shall never break, my sinews crumble
As God-the-headmaster’s fingers fumble
At the other side of unopening doors
Which I watch for a hundred thousand years.
I shall never feel my thin blood leak
While darkness stretches a paw to strike
Or Nothing beats an approaching drum
Behind my back in a silent room.
I shall never, alone, meet the end of my world
At the bend of a path, the turn of a wall:
Never, or once more only, and
That will be once and an end of end.
A few random poems:
- A Dream Pang by Robert Frost
- Sonnet LXIV: When I Have Seen by Time’s Fell Hand Defac’d by William Shakespeare
- The Pleasures of Memory
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks At The Dancers by William Butler Yeats
- Юлия Друнина – Шторм
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Chorus of Youths and Virgins poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- Now What Is Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan
- Владимир Костров – Мы на тяге ракетной берёзовых дров
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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