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.

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXII by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• Sonnet LXI by William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
• To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Yellow Violet by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Strange Lady by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Skies by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Living Lost by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Gladness of Nature by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Death of the Flowers by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Death of Lincoln by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• The Constellations by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• October by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant

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Dealing Monster

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.

 

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