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:
- Who Would Not Die For England! poem – Alfred Austin
- Night Words
- Sonnet 66: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry by William Shakespeare
- Slough poem – John Betjeman poems
- Solid, Ironical, Rolling Orb. by Walt Whitman
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited by William Butler Yeats
- Harvest moon by Yosa Buson
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Владимир Маяковский – Театры
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- Keeping Going by Seamus Heaney
- Epithalamion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Ode For General Washington’s Birthday :
- Bonnie Lesley by Robert Burns
- You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day poem – A. E. Housman
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
