I have never feared death
Even though
Its hands were more fragile
Than banality.
I dread, however, to die
In a land where
The grave digger’s wages
Exceed the price of human freedom.
Looking for,
Discovering,
Choosing freely,
And transforming one’s essence
Into a fortress.
If the price of death is higher than all that,
I deny, in absolute terms,
To have ever feared death.
A few random poems:
- Interregnum by Weldon Kees
- Вероника Тушнова – Зеркало
- An Indian Summer Day on the Prarie by Vachel Lindsay
- Зинаида Александрова – Лошадка
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Луговской – Игорь
- Ольга Седакова – Памяти одной старухи
- Before by Robert Browning
- Robert Burns: I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom:
- Ode 1957: An intellectual by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Golden Boat by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Лермонтов – Юнкерская молитва
- Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
- Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain poem – John Keats poems
- Mohay Apnay Hi Rung Mein poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
