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:
- Howard Stern’s Wine
- Зинаида Александрова – Большая ложка
- Омар Хайям – Когда к жизни Любовь меня в мир призвала
- Fairy Tale by Robert Desnos
- On An Ugly Fellow (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Release poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Alone You Passed by William Ellery Leonard
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Travel to Infinite Places by Michael Levy
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
- Олег Бундур – Яблоко
- The Flood In Spring by William Barnes
- Николай Тихонов – Крутили мельниц диких жернова
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Лучшая музыка в мире)
- Surrounded
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
