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:
- Ольга Седакова – Вениамин
- Омар Хайям – Если счастлив от счастья
- Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Гумилев – Ключ в лесу
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- I am not ashamed of myself by Swami Aaron Thomas
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Набоков – Пускай все горестней и глуше
- Solitude poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Юрий Калугин – Счастье любит тишину
- Lover’s Gifts XLIII: Dying, You Have Left Behind by Rabindranath Tagore
- Quietness, Something to Consider… Or Not (2 Poems)
- Илья Эренбург – Я так любил тебя, до грубых шуток
- Fairy Land iv by William Shakespeare
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
