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:
- Addiction by Walid Saba
- София Парнок – Об одной лошаденке чалой
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на слова, заданные мне Хлoeю: миг, картина и дверь
- Зинаида Александрова – Волчонок
- Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне в душу ступит кто-то посторонний
- Good Meäster Collins by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell:
- Юрий Галансков – Шиповник
- By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath
- Алишер Навои – Чудесные свершения середины жизни
- Федор Тютчев – Как летней иногда порою
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
- Grass is a taut crew; poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- By The Fates 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
- 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