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:
- Nimrod in September by Siegfried Sassoon
- Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Why, Why Tell The Lover: Fragment,
- A-Haulen O’ The Corn by William Barnes
- Владимир Орлов – Кому что снится?
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills by Yvor Winters
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
- At the Galleria Shopping Mall by Tony Hoagland
- Effigy Of A Nun by Sara Teasdale
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Silent Song by Pamela Griffiths
- The Emotion Line by Rita Odessa Villaruel
- Stepping Westward by William Wordsworth
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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