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:
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- At The End Of The Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Song On May Morning poem – John Milton poems
- In Measures by Shaunna Harper
- Омар Хайям – День прошел, и о нем позабудь поскорей
- Алексей Толстой – В колокол, мирно дремавший, с налета тяжелая бомба
- Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen by William Butler Yeats
- When that I was and a little tiny boy by William Shakespeare
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- The Monastery Of Life by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Федор Тютчев – Каким венком нам увенчать
- Владимир Маяковский – Советская азбука (Железо куй, пока горячее…)
- Алексей Жемчужников – Весна
- Олег Бундур – Вместо нас
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 Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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