This is not Love, perhaps,
Love that lays down its life,
that many waters cannot quench,
nor the floods drown,
But something written in lighter ink,
said in a lower tone, something, perhaps, especially our own.

A need, at times, to be together and talk,
And then the finding we can walk
More firmly through dark narrow places,
And meet more easily nightmare faces;
A need to reach out, sometimes, hand to hand,
And then find Earth less like an alien land;
A need for alliance to defeat
The whisperers at the corner of the street.

A need for inns on roads, islands in seas,
Halts for discoveries to be shared,
Maps checked, notes compared;
A need, at times, of each for each,
Direct as the need of throat and tongue for speech.

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A few random poems:

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 

• Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Молитва последняя by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Молитва by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Эльзи by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Электрон by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Далеким близким by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Да, я люблю одну тебя by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Цветок (Я цветок, и счастье аромата) by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Цветок by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Чудовище с клеймом by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Что достойно, что бесчестно by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Четыре источника by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Чет и нечет by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Черный и белый by Константин Бальмонт
• Константин Бальмонт – Черные вороны by Константин Бальмонт
• Кондратий Рылеев – Песня (Кто сколько ни хлопочет) by Кондратий Рылеев
• Кондратий Рылеев – Переводчику «Андромахи» by Кондратий Рылеев
• Кондратий Рылеев – Палей by Кондратий Рылеев
• Кондратий Рылеев – Оставь меня, Я здесь молю by Кондратий Рылеев

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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