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:
- Омар Хайям – Друг, два понятия должен бы ты затвердить
- Яков Полонский – Памяти В. М. Гаршина
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper
- Юнна Мориц – Зимнее
- On a Fan of the Author’s Design poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Paradise Lost: Book 06 poem – John Milton poems
- Яков Полонский – Поэт и гражданин, он призван был учить
- On A Miser, 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- “Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise” poem – Alfred Austin
- My Invisible Valentine by Nin Andrews
- Power poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- “Flight to the Moon” by Nina Gabriel
- A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet CXXXI by William Shakespeare
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