Night Piece
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Climb, claim your shelf-room, far
Packed from inquisitive moon
And cold contagious stars.
Lean out, but look no longer,
No further, than to stir
Night with extended finger.
Now fill the box with light,
Flood full the shining block,
Masonry against night.
Let window, curtain, blind
Soft-sieve and sift and shred
The impertinence of sound.
Now draw the silence up,
A blanket round your ears;
Lay darkness close and sure,
Inverted cup to cup
On your acquiescent eyes:
Dismissing body’s last outposted spies.
A few random poems:
- At the Top of My voice by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
- Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- Knowing God Part 1 – Finding God, Knowing Him, and Doing His Works
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Орлов – Очень хорошая девочка Яна
- Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore
- Transcended Land Of Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Маяковский – Не юбилейте
- My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Водовоз
- Сергей Михалков – Приехавшей из Африки девчушке
- I Shall Forget
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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