if suddenly you are not living,
I shall go on living.
I do not dare,
I do not dare to write it,
if you die.
I shall go on living.
Because where a man has no voice,
there, my voice
Where blacks are beaten,
I can not be dead.
When my brothers go to jail
I shall go with them.
When victory,
not my victory,
but the great victory
arrives,
even though I am mute I must speak:
I shall see it come even though I am blind.
No, forgive me,
if you are not living,
ifd you, beloved, my love,
if you
have died.
A few random poems:
- For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid by William Stafford
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Мой сад
- The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наброски песен к несостоявшемуся спектаклю по сказкам Шергина
- The Milk-Maid O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor
- Николай Некрасов – Вступление к песням 1876-77 годов
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Юлия Жадовская – Возврат весны
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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