If suddenly you do not exist,
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:
- Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
- Robert Burns: Song Composed In August:
- Николай Гумилев – Маргарита
- Second Epistle to J. Lapraik by Robert Burns
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- Эмиль Верхарн – Здравствуй, подруга
- On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Будь камнем твердым я
- Kiss by Ruth Padel
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама Резинотрест
- Robert Burns: Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries.: Inscription On A Goblet
- Crazy Jane On God by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- Drinking While Driving by Raymond Carver
- Taller To-day by W H Auden
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
