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:
- A Hymn for Christmas Day by Thomas Chatterton
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Мехов – Ах, у нашего Антошки
- Олег Бундур – В гостях на великом
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- Thalidomide by Sylvia Plath
- The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant
- Николай Гумилев – Новорожденному
- Greengrocer by Robert McNamara
- Elemental Drifts. by Walt Whitman
- The Lilies by Wendell Berry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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