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:
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Алексей Жемчужников – Радостные куплеты
- Better Days by Stevens Cadet
- Computer Cookies: Are They Good or Bad?
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
- Юрий Галансков – Он к нам придёт
- By Callimachus by William Cowper
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 10
- The Coming Of Winter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
- Couplet 2 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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
