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:
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
- An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Tree Of Song by Sara Teasdale
- In A Time Of Dearth poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- The Alchemist in the City poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
- A Woman’s Last Word by Robert Browning
- Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
- Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Юлия Друнина – В сорок пятом
- Tezcotzinco
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, чтоб праздник перешел и в будни
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
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