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:
- Robert Burns: For The Sake O’ Somebody:
- Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
- The Secret of the Machines by Rudyard Kipling
- Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Ode 1957: An intellectual by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Вера Звягинцева – На смерть Есенина
- The Melancholy of Birth
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Афродите
- The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Гиляровский – Песня Дона
- Николай Глазков – Покуда карты не раскрыты
- Hyperion. Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Константин Бальмонт – Морское дно
- Жан де Лафонтен – Пьяница и Жена его
- Зинаида Александрова – Баиньки
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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