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:
- Disappointment by Tony Hoagland
- Василий Тредиаковский – Будь жестока, будь упорна
- Hallowed Pleäces by William Barnes
- Clarence by Shel Silverstein
- San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
- My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy
- Ka ‘Ba poem – Amiri Baraka poems | Poems and Poetry
- Степан Щипачев – Свет звезды
- Владимир Маяковский – Во весь голос
- Николай Тихонов – Гулливер играет в карты
- Robert Burns: Extempore In The Court Of Session:
- Владимир Корнилов – Пишущая машинка
- John Anderson by Robert Burns
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
- Ольга Седакова – Вечерняя песня
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
