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:
- Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Алишер Навои – О таинствах любви
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- Федор Сологуб – В камине пылания много
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
- Константин Ваншенкин – Городские костры
- A Light Woman by Robert Browning
- Жан де Лафонтен – Обезьяна и Дельфин
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope
- Amy Margaret’s Five Year Old by William Allingham
- Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
- Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
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
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
- Transient
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