The Children Look At The Parents
by A. S. J. Tessimond
We being so hidden from those who
Have quietly borne and fed us,
How can we answer civilly
Their innocent invitations?
How can we say “we see you
As but-for-God’s-grace-ourselves, as
Our caricatures (we yours), with
Time’s telescope between us”?
How can we say “you presumed on
The accident of kinship,
Assumed our friendship coatlike,
Not as a badge one fights for”?
How say “and you remembered
The sins of our outlived selves and
Your own forgiveness, buried
The hatchet to slow music;
Shared money but not your secrets;
Will leave as your final legacy
A box double-locked by the spider
Packed with your unsolved problems”?
How say all this without capitals,
Italics, anger or pathos,
To those who have seen from the womb come
Enemies? How not say it?
A few random poems:
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- Ольга Ермолаева – Просила тебя у мертвой и выпросила у мертвой
- Elephant Dormitory by Russell Edson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Утренняя гимнастика
- Ольга Берггольц – Здравствуй
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- Алишер Навои – Украсишь ты свой наряд красным
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- The Sea and the Shadow by Paul Blackburn
- Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Алексей Плещеев – Твоя любовь мне утешенье
- Владимир Высоцкий – Куплеты Бенгальского
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Ballad of East and West by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Address To The Woodlark:
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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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