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:
- Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper by Robert Burns
- how did poetry begin? by Raj Arumugam
- Федор Сологуб – Тепло мне потому, что мой уютный дом
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не люблю тебя
- The Old Manor House
- Robert Burns: Meg O’ The Mill:
- The Happy Townland by William Butler Yeats
- Нина Воронель – Неровен час
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- The Land of the Exile by Rabindranath Tagore
- Яков Полонский – По горам две хмурых тучи
- Civil War Songs
- Lifetime Of Death by Steve Sant
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 Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney
- The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- The Otter by Seamus Heaney
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- The Grauballe Man by Seamus Heaney
- The Early Purges by Seamus Heaney
- Testimony by Seamus Heaney
- Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney
- Song by Seamus Heaney
- Rite of Spring by Seamus Heaney
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
- Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney
- Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
- Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney
- Limbo by Seamus Heaney
- Keeping Going by Seamus Heaney
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