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:
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Composed During A Storm by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- From: The Home We Will Never Live In That Place by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Карамзин – Триолет Алете в тот день, как ей исполнилось 14 лет
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances. by Walt Whitman
- Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb by Robert Burns
- The Priestess of Panormita poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Lines Written On A Banknote:
- Robert Burns: John Barleycorn: A Ballad :
- Низами Гянджеви – Слышишь, звякнул бубенцами
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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