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:
- Ольга Седакова – Я жизнь в порыве жить
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- XIV: Some Verses: To Mr. Edward Allane by William Alexander
- Ask Me by William Stafford
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- Before They Were Mothers by Sappho
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мелочи жизни
- Maktoob
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- The Seven Sisters by William Wordsworth
- When ‘Omer Smote ‘Is Bloomin’ Lyre by Rudyard Kipling
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- Василий Жуковский – Эолова арфа
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
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
- Infelix
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