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:
- Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- Tale Of A Tub by Sylvia Plath
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- Михаил Ломоносов – Молчите, струйки чисты
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- Medical Ethics
- REFLECTING THE PRAISES by Satish Verma
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Spring in Town by William Cullen Bryant
- The Wanderer by Sara Teasdale
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
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
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