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:
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- Breath by Ryssel Guzman
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl
- Федор Сваровский – Пилот и Биби Хлотрос
- Николай Языков – Прошли младые наши годы
- Николай Тихонов – И сказал женщине суд
- Яков Полонский – На искусе
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Юлия Друнина – В семнадцать
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- Ode On Indolence poem – John Keats poems
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
- Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
