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:
- Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands by Rabindranath Tagore
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- In The Stone I Rooted
- The Nap Taker by Shel Silverstein
- Long-Legged Fly by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – П. В. Киреевскому (Ты крепкий, праведный стоятель)
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Лель
- Василий Курочкин – Двуглавый орел
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
- The Amaranth by Vachel Lindsay
- To a foil’d European Revolutionaire. by Walt Whitman
- Вера Павлова – Твоя хладность
- Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare
- A Song of the White Men by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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
