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?

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A few random poems:

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 

• On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One False In Love by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To Aphrodite by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Before They Were Mothers by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Torments Of Love by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Silver Moon by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Death Of Adonis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• In the spring twilight by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• The Silver Moon by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Sappho To Her Girlfriends by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Of course I love you by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Ode To A Loved One by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• My Garden by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ
• Loneliness by Sappho by Sappho Σαπφώ

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

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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