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 Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- Иван Киуру – Человек
- Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
- O Do Not Love Too Long by William Butler Yeats
- Ballade Of Queen Anne poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Седакова – Баллада
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Песнь соловья
- Most Sweet it is by William Wordsworth
- A Tulip Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ad Olum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот раньше жизнь
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
- Cradle Song poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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
