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:
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Современный Козьма Прутков
- Song—A Health to them that’s awa by Robert Burns
- White and Green poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Merchant of Copan [In English and Spanish]
- Новелла Матвеева – Смех Фавна
- Robert Burns: Lines To An Old Sweetheart:
- Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 by Robert Burns
- In Me, Past, Present, Future meet by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Child Of God Longing To See Him Beloved by William Cowper
- The Vaïces That Be Gone by William Barnes
- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о двух красивых автомобилях
- Ольга Берггольц – Огонь, и воду, и медные трубы
- O Bitter Sprig! Confession Sprig! by Walt Whitman
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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
