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:
- On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Британишский – На Марсовом поле
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- Kangaroo talks to the Sun by Raj Arumugam
- oh no – not another love poem! by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay:
- Николай Гумилев – За часом час бежит и падает во тьму
- The Golden Age poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- A Meeting With Despair by Thomas Hardy
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Considering The Snail by Thom Gunn
- An Evening Walk by William Wordsworth
- Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
- Hemingwayan waves of time by Ndue Ukaj
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
