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:
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на день рождения А. А. Плещеевой 14 октября
- A Poem Of Love by Walter William Safar
- The Highland Broach by William Wordsworth
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недолго
- Belts by Rudyard Kipling
- Юнна Мориц – Дышать любовью, пить её, как воздух
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
- Владимир Маяковский – Новые силы в III Интернационале!.. (РОСТА №891)
- Before This Little Gift Was Come by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Fable of Dryope – Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Степанов – Акробат (Буква А)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о штангисте
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
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
- A Sigh In The Night
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