This is not Love, perhaps,
Love that lays down its life,
that many waters cannot quench,
nor the floods drown,
But something written in lighter ink,
said in a lower tone, something, perhaps, especially our own.

A need, at times, to be together and talk,
And then the finding we can walk
More firmly through dark narrow places,
And meet more easily nightmare faces;
A need to reach out, sometimes, hand to hand,
And then find Earth less like an alien land;
A need for alliance to defeat
The whisperers at the corner of the street.

A need for inns on roads, islands in seas,
Halts for discoveries to be shared,
Maps checked, notes compared;
A need, at times, of each for each,
Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech.

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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 

• tears.html by Poetry In English
• simple_heart.html by Poetry In English
• silence.html by Poetry In English
• she.html by Poetry In English
• sealed_appropriate.html by Poetry In English
• seal.html by Poetry In English
• sea_salt_a_villanelle.html by Poetry In English
• salamis_quot.html by Poetry In English
• sacrifice_and_love.html by Poetry In English
• poetry_and_politics.html by Poetry In English
• plato.html by Poetry In English
• paralipomemnon.html by Poetry In English
• our_refuge.html by Poetry In English
• one_sweet_white_light.html by Poetry In English
• new_land.html by Poetry In English
• motionless_body.html by Poetry In English
• mother.html by Poetry In English
• minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html by Poetry In English
• mark.html by Poetry In English
• love_flower.html by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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