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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Советская азбука (Железо куй, пока горячее…)
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- As Toilsome I Wander’d. by Walt Whitman
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- Consumption by William Cullen Bryant
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
- Владимир Маяковский – Расчистка пути (РОСТА)
- Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Indian Wedding Customs – Eastern and Western Indian Wedding Traditions
- Father Divine poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Fault by Sara Teasdale
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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