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:
- Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe by Shel Silverstein
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Такахама Кёси – Драчливые петухи
- A Curse for Kings by Vachel Lindsay
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Journey Through The Moonlight by Russell Edson
- Sher Afzul
- Аля Кудряшева – Октябрь был дождем, непонятным месяцем
- In shadows of night
- the_emigrant.html
- Олег Бундур – Письмо от бабушки
- A Way to Love God by Robert Penn Warren
- Chris’mas Invitation by William Barnes
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Сейчас беднее нас нет… (РОСТА №742)
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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