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:
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Riposte to the Bard: Sonnet 130 remade in my lady’s image by Neil Outar
- In Barracks by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Fanny’s Be’th-Day by William Barnes
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis poem – John Keats poems
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper
- Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
- Ольга Высотская – Веселый поезд
- The Farmer’s Woldest D’ter by William Barnes
- Новелла Матвеева – Страна Дельфиния
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