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:
- Night Light by Satish Verma
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Альфред де Мюссе – Да, женщины, тут нет ошибки
- Feelings Of A Noble Biscayan At One Of Those Funerals by William Wordsworth
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Avec seulement du noir by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- The Highland Broach by William Wordsworth
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
- Robert Burns: The Trogger.: Heron Election Ballad, No. IV.
- A Kind of Life by Stanley Wilkin
- Friends by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Psalm 02 poem – John Milton poems
- Михаил Кузмин – Уж не слышен конский топот
- The Battle Of Killie-Crankie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Олег Бундур – Пёс
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
