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:
- Sonnet 5: Those hours, that with gentle work did frame by William Shakespeare
- Doors Of The Temple
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- Владимир Британишский – 1942 год
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- God’s Grandeur poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Counting Sheep by Russell Edson
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- Prayer, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: Prière by T. Wignesan.
- Hector The Collector by Shel Silverstein
- Chronicle
- Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge:
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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