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:
- Sometimes….Life’s A Beach by Stevens Cadet
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Геращенко
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Георгий Иванов – Теплятся жаркие свечи
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney poem – Alexander Pope
- Алексей Жемчужников – Себе
- Юрий Верховский – Есть имена, таинственны и стары
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- Anticipation, October 1803 by William Wordsworth
- The Welsh Marches poem – A. E. Housman
- Федор Сологуб – Плачет безутешная вдова
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
