Death’s claim
by Tanisha Avarsekar
When life stops, but time goes on.
When you go, but I have to move on.
When the world’s successful in tearing us apart.
When death comes to claim, what’s been given by the past.
Flames in the graveyard burn through the dark…
The Journey to Freedom
Copyright ©:
Tanisha Avarsekar, 2012

A few random poems:
- Invocation by Siegfried Sassoon
- Омар Хайям – Благородство страданием, друг, рождено
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Thou Orb Aloft Full-Dazzling. by Walt Whitman
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet to Italy by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
- Adventures of King Robert the Bruce by William Topaz McGonagall
- Ольга Седакова – Сновидец
- Sonnet 58: That god forbid, that made me first your slave by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Орлов – Летит корабль
- Николай Заболоцкий – Летний вечер
- Олег Бундур – Просьба
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
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton
- Ballad Of The Skeletons poem – Allen Ginsberg
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton
- A winning lot
- 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley
- Why?
- Where Are You?
- Tell Me
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Intruder
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Upon The Hills Of Georgia poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin
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