To Be Blind
by A. S. J. Tessimond
Is it sounds
converging,
Sounds
nearing,
Infringement,
impingement,
Impact,
contact
With surfaces of the sounds
Or surfaces without the sounds:
Diagrams,
skeletal,
strange?
Is it winds
curling round invisible corners?
Polyphony of perfumes?
Antennae discovering an axis,
erecting the architecture of a world?
Is it
orchestration of the finger-tips,
graph of a fugue:
Scaffold for colours:
colour itself being god?

A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: Anna, Thy Charms:
- The Scarecrow by Ross D Tyler
- Heavy Woman by Sylvia Plath
- The Wind Speaks poem – Alfred Austin
- Вера Полозкова – И катись бутылкой по автостраде
- On A Thief (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Такахама Кёси – Мацумуси пищит
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
- In The Metropolitan Museum by Sara Teasdale
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- Prayer
- Владимир Британишский – Первая послевоенная осень
- Алексей Жемчужников – Умные политики
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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