Stairs fly as straight as hawks;
Or else in spirals, curve out of curve, pausing
At a ledge to poise their wings before relaunching.
Stairs sway at the height of their flight
Like a melody in Tristan;
Or swoop to the ground with glad spread of their feathers
Before they close them.

They curiously investigate
The shells of buildings,
A hollow core,
Shell in a shell.

Useless to produce their path to infinity
Or turn it to a moral symbol,
For their flight is ambiguous, upwards or downwards as you please;
Their fountain is frozen,
Their concertina is silent.

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Вера Павлова – Подарил мне жизнь by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – По счету by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Плачу, потому что не можешь со мной жить by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Перед дальней дорогой by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Память, дырявый мешок by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Отпала от пола by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Они влюблены и счастливы by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Объятье by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – О чем by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Нежность больше не делится by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Нет, нет, не ревность by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Жизнь в посудной лавке by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Зеркало по природе правдиво by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Завещание by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Заплетала косички by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – за руку здороваться с рекой by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Я дождевой червь by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Всходить на костёр Жанною by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Время уступать место by Вера Павлова
• Вера Павлова – Время бежит на время by Вера Павлова

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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