The Serbian poet and writer Desanka Maksimović wrote a poem about the massacre titled "Krvava bajka" ("A Bloody Fairy Tale"). The poem was later included in the Yugoslav secondary school curriculum and schoolchildren were required to memorise it. It ranks among the most famous Serbian-language poems. In 1965, the Belgian poet Karel Jonckheere wrote the poem "Kinderen met krekelstem" ("Children with Cricket Voices"), also about the massacre. "The Blue Butterfly", a book of poetry by Richard Berengarten, is based on the poet's experiences while visiting Kragujevac in 1985, when a blue butterfly landed on his hand at the entrance to the memorial museum.