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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Вера Павлова – Снежную бабочку-однодневку
- THE DANGERS OF AN HONEST MAN IN MUCH COMPANY by Abraham Cowley
- Enough by Sara Teasdale
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dryads by Siegfried Sassoon
- In The Metropolitan Museum by Sara Teasdale
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- For P’ei Ti by Wang Wei
- A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- Dreadful by Shel Silverstein
- Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Дожмем! В России буржуазия побеждена… (РОСТА №841)
- Identity poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
