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:
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
- Владимир Высоцкий – Отпустите мне грехи
- I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
- Владимир Высоцкий – В этом доме большом раньше пьянка была
- A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns
- Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
- Федор Сваровский – Об удивительном
- Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn by William Shakespeare
- A Thought From Propertius by William Butler Yeats
- I met a seer by Stephen Crane
- An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Virgule by Thomas Lux
- Lessons. by Walt Whitman
- A MEAN IN OUR MEANS by Robert Herrick
- In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
