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:
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Hurting Dive by Satish Verma
- Василий Жуковский – На первое отречение от престола Бонапарте
- The Ballad Of Father O’Hart by William Butler Yeats
- Olney Hymn 32: The Shining Light by William Cowper
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Федор Сологуб – Я часть загадки разгадал
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- To a Pupil. by Walt Whitman
- To Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Низами Гянджеви – Розу пологом колючим
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
- Written Before Re-Reading King Lear poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Степанов – Енот (Буква Е)
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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