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:
- Sir Richard’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- Омар Хайям – Любя тебя, сношу я все упрёки
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- On His Grotto at Twickenham poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Parsonage In Oxfordshire by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland: Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom
- The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Рубцов – Весна на берегу Бии
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- Falling Action by Ruth Madievsky
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy
- Владимир Корнилов – Сорок лет спустя
- Федор Тютчев – Князю Горчакову
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works