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:
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- Song At Capri by Sara Teasdale
- Anacreontics Drinking
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- The Redeemer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – Хрущёву
- Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
- Николай Глазков – Без поражений нет побед
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сословные речи
- Нина Воронель – Сиротское
- The Vaudois by William Wordsworth
- The Beäten Path by William Barnes
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- A Flower Garden At Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire. by William Wordsworth
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
