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:
- Федор Сологуб – Водой спокойной отражены
- Зинаида Александрова – Котята
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse by William Shakespeare
- I Want It Now by Roald Dahl
- On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
- Here by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Everything by Philip Levine
- Winter Apples by Tatiana Gusarova, translated by Fledermaus
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Coming To This by Mark Strand
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- The Rock Cries Out to Us Today by Maya Angelou
- Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more by William Shakespeare
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
