Upside Down

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.

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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 by Alcaeus Ἀλκαῖος Алкей
• Storm by Alcaeus Ἀλκαῖος Алкей
• Poor Fisherman by Alcaeus Ἀλκαῖος Алкей
• Invitation by Alcaeus Ἀλκαῖος Алкей
• A Banquet Song by Alcaeus Ἀλκαῖος Алкей
• Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles by Alan Seeger
• With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College by Alan Seeger
• Vivien by Alan Seeger
• Virginibus Puerisque by Alan Seeger
• Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi by Alan Seeger
• To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War by Alan Seeger
• Tithonus by Alan Seeger
• The Wanderer by Alan Seeger
• The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc by Alan Seeger
• The Sultans Palace by Alan Seeger
• The Rendezvous by Alan Seeger
• The Old Lowe House Staten Island by Alan Seeger
• The Nympholept by Alan Seeger
• The Need To Love by Alan Seeger
• The Hosts by Alan Seeger

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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