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:
- The Fountain by Sara Teasdale
- No Labor-Saving Machine. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вратарь (Льву Яшину)
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Набоков – Поэт
- Any Soul That Drank the Nectar by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- GESTURES by Satish Verma
- Николай Заболоцкий – Голубиная книга
- Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
- Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Nevertheless by Marianne Moore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мажорный светофор, трёхцветье, трио
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Out of Town poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
