It’s funny how beetles
and creatures like that
can walk upside down
as well as walk flat.
They crawl on a ceiling
and climb on a wall
without any practice
or trouble at all.
While I have been trying
for a year (maybe more)
and still I can’t stand
with my head on the floor.
A few random poems:
- Hippo’s Hope by Shel Silverstein
- Dreaming of Li Po by Tu Fu
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет меня, я покинул Расею
- Алишер Навои – Как от вздохов безнадежных дым
- And Still to USA they get! by Tom Mukasa
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Guilt And Sorrow, Or, Incidents Upon Salisbury Plain by William Wordsworth
- Invocation by Marilyn Hacker
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc. by Robert Burns
- Herodotus in Egypt Remeber Delos by Ruth Padel
- To Autumn poem – John Keats poems
- Their Reposessions by Michael P Amram
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
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
- Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
- As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- Loves Blindness
- The Haymakers Song
- Loves Blindness
- At His Grave
- Agatha
- Why
- Where Are You
- Tell Me
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
