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:
- Федор Сологуб – Либава, Либава, товарная душа
- A Winter Night by Robert Burns
- Алексей Плещеев – Сон
- I Know A Man by Robert Creeley
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- Utopia by Ndue Ukaj
- Chloris in the Snow by William Strode
- Ballade Of Old Plays poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Tribute to Dr. Murison by William Topaz McGonagall
- Ольга Ермолаева – Вот сойдешь с ума и станешь Юрия
- Doomes-Day: The Sixth Houre by William Alexander
- Яков Полонский – Нищий
- The Gardener XLV: To the Guests by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: A Bottle And Friend:
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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