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.

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Gravity Suspended by Poetry In English
• From Death by Poetry In English
• Forfeiture by Poetry In English
• For My Mother by Poetry In English
• Fly Fly Butterfly by Poetry In English
• Even The Rain by Poetry In English
• Destiny Far Away by Poetry In English
• Conversation by Poetry In English
• Calling All Angels by Poetry In English
• At The Locks Of The Void by Poetry In English
• Anthem by Poetry In English
• All In A Word by Poetry In English
• A Teenage Pregnancy by Poetry In English
• A Painting Morning by Poetry In English
• A Child Of War by Poetry In English
• Your Dream by Poetry In English
• Ars Poetica by Poetry In English
• The Vision Of Cassandra by Aeschylus Αἰσχύλος Эсхил
• The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia by Aeschylus Αἰσχύλος Эсхил
• The Lament Of The Old Nurse by Aeschylus Αἰσχύλος Эсхил

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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