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:
- Зинаида Александрова – Одуванчик
- Михаил Кузмин – Утро (Звезды побледнели)
- Владимир Степанов – Гном (Буква Г)
- Олег Бундур – Лагуна
- In September poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Canto XIII poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Липы
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- Sonet 5 by William Alexander
- Николай Тихонов – Крутили мельниц диких жернова
- Twilight poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- Gem Immortality
- Ольга Берггольц – Озерный край
- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
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
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
- The Old Maids Story
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