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 Ask Me, Why, Tho’ Ill at Ease poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Карамзин – К милости
- The Gardener XI: Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
- Protest poem by Susan King Saunders
- Валерий Брюсов – К моей стране
- Storm and Sunlight by Siegfried Sassoon
- WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Chant-Pagan by Rudyard Kipling
- Another Song Of A Fool by William Butler Yeats
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 XII. Sonnet Composed At —- Castle by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оловянные солдатики
- Nature’s song for the children by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Некрасов – Деревенские новости
- Михаил Лермонтов – Земля и небо
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
