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:
- Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- A Week by Thomas Hardy
- Legacy by Vinko Kalinić
- A Palanquin Of Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- When the universe speaks by Preeth Nambiar
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорожный дневник: Часть II
- Огюст Барбье – Жертвы
- Orlando Furioso Canto 16 by Ludovico Ariosto
- EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt
- It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Резинотрест
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Rhymes for Gloriana by Vachel Lindsay
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
