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 Green Linnet by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Strathallan’s Lament:
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- We Are To Play The Game Of Death by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Quesion by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
- City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman
- Омар Хайям – Лучше впасть в нищету, голодать или красть
- Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чатырдаг
- The Judges Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Evening by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still by William Shakespeare
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Untitled XX by Yunus Emre
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
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- The Call of the Crows by Tanmoy
- The Blind Man by Théophile Gautier
- The Beautiful Heartbreak by Talha Jafri
- Snow Flakes by Tala Bar
- Selecting A Reader by Ted Kooser
- Seasons by Tala Bar
- Ritual by Tala Bar
- Passion of Greatness by Terence Ray Robertson
- On The Move ‘Man, You Gotta Go. by Thom Gunn
- My Sad Captains by Thom Gunn
- Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
- Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri
- Love In Reverse by Talha Jafri
- Love Equals Insanity by Talha Jafri
- Light by Tala Bar
- Last Poem by Ted Berrigan
- In January by Ted Kooser
- I Want It Now by Roald Dahl
- Exodus by Taha Muhammad Ali
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