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:
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Наум Коржавин – Генерал
- Михаил Лермонтов – Благодарность
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 15 из 15
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Nailing by Mike Yuan
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть
- Peace Universal Good
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Христианские мысли перед битвами
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet CXXXIII by William Shakespeare
- Dead Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
