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:
- What the Sexton Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Private Property poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- As We Like It by W H Auden
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 1. by William Cowper
- Borow
- Gamajun, the Prophetic Bird poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной
- The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Моя любовь к тебе достигла совершенства
- The Fairy Bridal-Hymn by Vachel Lindsay
- Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Sonnet XII. On Leaving Some Friends At An Early Hour poem – John Keats poems
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- This Morning by Raymond Carver
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
- a_choka_is_a_littoral_drift.html
- the_solitary_oak_on_mount_kremlin_bicetre.html
- the_prison_of_the_past.html
- The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
- pathos_is_the_skyward_tanka.html
- nominalism_is_a_liquid_kuhi.html
- eclipse_of_love.html
- divided_passion.html
- death039s_claim.html
- dear_bhikkhu_a_eulogy.html
- as_with_a_senryu_s_hardening_ridge.html
- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- a_faded_postcard_is_a_tanka_daydream.html
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- Exodus by Michael Nikoletseas
- Saint George the Dragon by Michael Nikoletseas
- heal_me_slowly.html
- gazebo.html
- all-days-seem-same.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
