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 Challenge: A Court Ballad poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Stretch Mark Cream – How Creams Help Remove Stretch Marks
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- South Africa by Rudyard Kipling
- Barnfloor and Winepress poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Damon And Sylvia: Fragment
- Sonet 44 by William Alexander
- Dawlish poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Alien poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Листья дерева жизни, отпущенной мне
- Вера Павлова – Телефонные кнопки
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нам говорят без всякой лести
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
