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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Ответ
- Golgotha by Siegfried Sassoon
- Михаил Кузмин – Зачем копье Архистратига
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Комета
- Trademark by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Иван Крылов – Лиса-строитель (Басня)
- The Chinese Nightingale by Vachel Lindsay
- Федор Сологуб – Зальдивши тайный зной страстей, Валерий
- Ольга Берггольц – Сейчас тебе всё кажется тобой
- Николай Языков – Водопад
- A Confession To A Friend In Trouble by Thomas Hardy
- March by William Morris
- Sorry by Tom Mukasa
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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