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 

• Come up from the Fields, Father. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City of Ships. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• City Dead-House, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Chanting the Square Deific. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Cavalry Crossing a Ford. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Carol of Words. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Carol of Occupations. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Camps of Green. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• By Broad Potomac’s Shore. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Brother of All, with Generous Hand. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Bivouac on a Mountain Side. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Behold this Swarthy Face. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Behavior. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beginning my Studies. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beginners. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beautiful Women. by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
• Beat! Beat! Drums! by Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

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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