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:
- The Cup of Life by Mike Yuan
- Fields and Gardens by the River Qi by Wang Wei
- Blank Joy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Power of Peace by Rixa White
- Like A Vocation by W H Auden
- Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Lady Weeping at the Crossroads by W H Auden
- Fog poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman
- Death’s Echo by W H Auden
- Green Thumb by Philip Levine
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- A Ripple Song by Rudyard Kipling
- A Recantation by Rudyard Kipling
- A Pict Song by Rudyard Kipling
- A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
- A General Summary by Rudyard Kipling
- A Code of Morals by Rudyard Kipling
- A Charm by Rudyard Kipling
- A Carol by Rudyard Kipling
- You Personify God’s Message by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Rumi
- Who is at my door? by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- What Hidden Sweetness Is There by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- We Are As The Flute by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- This is Love by Rumi
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