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:
- Robert Burns: The Highland Widow’s Lament :
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- In the Nower poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- For Aun by Lynne Scott
- Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
- Vivien
- Николай Языков – Послание к Ф. И. Иноземцеву (Да сохранит тебя великий русский бог)
- Minoan Porcelain
- Praises to my motherland ! by Neelam Sinha
- Blood And The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Италия
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
