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:
- The Old Huntsman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- Kosmos. by Walt Whitman
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister by William Wordsworth
- The Broken Field by Sara Teasdale
- The Victory by Shahida Latif
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- Among the Rocks by Robert Browning
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier:
- The Reverie of Poor Susan by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше буржуи о производстве думали… (РОСТА №792)
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
