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:
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
- A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
- Quiet by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- Владимир Луговской – Пепел
- The Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – Здравствуй
- Юрий Верховский – Как раненый олень кидается в поток
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 26. Erin, Oh Erin. Томас Мур.
- The Silent Muse poem – Alfred Austin
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
- For Birds by Nithin Purple
- Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
- Femme Fatale by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Evening by Olivia Lewis
- E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
- Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
- Death Divine by Nithin Purple
- Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
- Children’s Taste by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Cambodian Flower by Norma Martiri
- Burnt in contemplation by Nishant Deherkar
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Blank by Nizar Sartawi
- Between Two Moments by Nizar Sartawi
- Between going and staying the day wavers by Octavio Paz
- Basic Overhaul by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Aquamarine Butterfly by Nina Gabriel
- An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Mrs Mary Blaize by Oliver Goldsmith
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works