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:
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- The Reef poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Набоков – Глаза
- Les Roses de Sâdi poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Indian Upon God by William Butler Yeats
- Brooklyn Narcissus by Paul Blackburn
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Love’s Gleaning Tide by William Morris
- The Journey by Yvor Winters
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
- The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
- Freemen by John Oxenham
- The Kind Word
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
