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:
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
- Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил
- Юлия Друнина – Шторм
- A Farewell poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Аля Кудряшева – М. и П.
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Falling Asleep by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – От скучных шабашей смертельно уставши
- When Helen Lived by William Butler Yeats
- Аля Кудряшева – Про ангелов
- Collecting Milkweed by Satish Verma
- Exmoor poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Follies of War by Michael Levy
- Владимир Корнилов – Собака подлеца
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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