Nursery Rhyme For A Twenty-First Birthday
by A. S. J. Tessimond
You cannot see the walls that divide your hand
From his or hers or mine when you think you touch it.
You cannot see the walls because they are glass,
And glass is nothing until you try to pass it.
Beat on it if you like, but not too hard,
For glass will break you even while you break it.
Shout, and the sound will be broken and driven backwards,
For glass, though clear as water, is deaf as granite.
This fraudulent inhibition is cunning: wise men
Content themselves with breathing patterns on it.
A few random poems:
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Tithonus
- Is Resume Writing Really That Important?
- Editorial Impressions by Siegfried Sassoon
- Как тамада я выступаю в роли теоретика
- On An Eclipse Of The Moon by Walter Savage Landor
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- Федор Тютчев – Как птичка, раннею зарей
- Владимир Высоцкий – Запись в книге почётных гостей ВНИИФТРИ
- My Modern Surrealist Mind by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тоска немая гложет иногда
- Lines Written In The Highlands After A Visit To Burns’s Country poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночное гулянье
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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