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 by Sidney Lanier
- Tides by Sara Teasdale
- Brothers poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- Goblins Of The Steppes poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Book Leaf by Shaunna Harper
- The Thorn by William Wordsworth
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- The Last Man by Thomas Campbell
- Михаил Кузмин – Заключение (Водительница Одигитрия)
- Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
- Джон Мильтон – Новым гонителям свободы
- Олег Бундур – Клубника созрела
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
