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:
- Verses Printed By Himself On A Flood At Olney by William Cowper
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- Blue Period by Shaunna Harper
- Sonnet CXXXV by William Shakespeare
- My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg
- At the Galleria Shopping Mall by Tony Hoagland
- Yesterday by W. S. Merwin
- By the Spring, at Sunset by Vachel Lindsay
- The Changeling by Russell Edson
- Наум Коржавин – Он собирался многое свершить
- Fragment Of An Ode To Maia. Written On May Day 1818 poem – John Keats poems
- Влад Амелин – Приумножай добро
- Companions by Siegfried Sassoon
- Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
