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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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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

Poems in English 

• Portrait of Rage and Age poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• Introspection In Evening poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• For Fixation Who Loves Me Back poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• A March Afternoon poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• A February Night poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• A Cat Perched on the Railing poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Cavanaugh
• What a Glow Everywhere I see – Aaj Rung Hai poem – with a translation Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Sakal Bun poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Persian Poem poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Nami Danam… poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Mora Jobana (My Youth) poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Mohay Apnay Hi Rung Mein poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Man Kunto Maula poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro
• Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry by Amir Khusro

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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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