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:
- You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
- Herodotus in Egypt Remeber Delos by Ruth Padel
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
- laugh to cry by Raj Arumugam
- Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
- Design by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Монастыркам
- Стефан Малларме – Отходит кружево опять
- Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Ольга Берггольц – Лучший город
- Breaking and Entering by Ralph Angel
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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
