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:
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Inscription For A Hermitage In The Author’s Garden by William Cowper
- The Earth Trembles by Shahida Latif
- A Tale of the Sea by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
- A slant of sun on dull brown walls, by Stephen Crane
- Hey! Mr.Pothole by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Олег Бундур – Что будет, если
- Lover’s Gifts LIV: In the Beginning of Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Москва-Одесса
- Иван Дмитриев – Старик и трое молодых
- Robert Burns: Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle:
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи! От сбора продналога… (Главполитпросвет №284)
- Lady Freedom Among Us by Rita Dove
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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