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:
- Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
- Tempest poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Open sky by Shailendra Chauhan
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Кэрролла
- Any Poet At Any Time poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
- The First Sam Hazo at the Last by Samuel Hazo
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Яков Полонский – Чтобы песня моя разлилась как поток
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жан, Жак, Гийом, Густав нормальные французы
- Indian Dancer by Sarojini Naidu
- A Flower Garden At Coleorton Hall, Leicestershire. by William Wordsworth
- Books And Thoughts poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- In Memoriam F.O.S. 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
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
- Afridi Love
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