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:
- Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- Владимир Британишский – Мы кончили нашу работу
- Poems On Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Мой друг, о завтрашнем заботиться не след
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Виктор Павлов – Милосердие в моем понимании
- The Winner by Shel Silverstein
- The Dandelion by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Сердобольский – Алмазная снежинка
- Владимир Британишский – Красный конь
- woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
- Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle:
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. In Examination. Руперт Брук.
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
