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:
- Itri poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Хорошее слово
- Владимир Британишский – Крылов и тверяки
- Ольга Ермолаева – Когда распрямлюсь, озирая работу мою
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Cold Iron by Rudyard Kipling
- “I Sometimes Think” by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- My Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Fallen Star: Dedicated to Huey P. Newton by Tupac Shakur
- The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Луговской – Игорь
- Sir Philip Sidney; Astrophel and Stella: XXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Вакханки (перевод)
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish
- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Didn’t Apologize to the Well by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- Hora Cero by Manolo Arriola
- Heaven, an envious home by Mahak Raithatha S
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Hate Survives by Mac McGovern
- Halloween by Mac Hammond
- Frijolita by Manolo Arriola
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
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
