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:
- Алишер Навои – Словно зеркало, сияет лик твой
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про правого инсайда
- Юлия Друнина – Хорошо молодое лицо
- Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard by William Wordsworth
- Halloween by Mac Hammond
- Power
- Михаил Кузмин – Уж не слышен конский топот
- The Fairy Bridal-Hymn by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Вишневский – Хотел я искупаться в знак протеста
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- September 1913 by William Butler Yeats
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи о Фоме
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
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
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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