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:
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
- Омар Хайям – Где вы, друзья! Где вольный ваш припев?
- Валерий Брюсов – Из ада изведенные (Астарта! Астарта! И ты посмеялась)
- Владимир Корнилов – Собака подлеца
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On Holy Willie:
- Robert Burns: The Highland Widow’s Lament :
- Another Song by Philip Levine
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- The Arrival Of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 95. By night we linger’d on the lawn poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Fleckno, an English Priest at Rome poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Good Hours by Robert Frost
- Thoughts. by Walt Whitman
- The Drèven O’ The Common by William Barnes
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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
