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:
- Translation of a Prayer of Brutus poem – Alexander Pope
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
- Владимир Маяковский – Шляпами панов не забить… (РОСТА №222)
- Resolution And Independence by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – Две вазы
- Release poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 103. The Mountain Spite. Томас Мур.
- Ballades V – Of His Choice Of A Sepulchre poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Владимир Высоцкий – Студенческая песня
- Георгий Иванов – Аспазия, всегда Аспазия
- Степан Щипачев – Застольное слово
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам
- Robert Burns: Hey, Ca’ Thro’ – Boat song:
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long 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
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Starlight
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