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:
- Day’s Work A-Done by William Barnes
- Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Шекспир – Я лью потоки горьких слез – Сонет 44
- On Looking Up By Chance At The Constellations by Robert Frost
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
- Владимир Маяковский – Письмо Татьяне Яковлевой
- Ambrose Bierce – Ambrose Bierce Poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Берггольц – Заметь, заметь, Как легчает сердце
- This we Have Now by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sonet 4 by William Alexander
- The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Enigma of A Phoenix by Neelam Dadhwal
- Зинаида Александрова – Игрушки
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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