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:
- Why the Young Men Are So Ugly by Tony Hoagland
- Street In Packingtown by Willa Sibert Cather
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- Cheery Beggar poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- But Outer Space by Robert Frost
- Monument by Satish Verma
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Wishes by Satish Verma
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
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