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:
- Identity poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- Николай Заболоцкий – Народный дом
- motionless_body.html
- Владимир Маяковский – Ни знахарство, ни благодать бога в болезни не подмога
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- Олег Григорьев – Благо
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К женщине
- My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
- Paris
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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