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:
- The Match poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In A Vacant House by Philip Levine
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make by William Shakespeare
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Diary of a Church Mouse poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Thick-Sprinkled Bunting. by Walt Whitman
- The Gardener XLVI: You Left Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Wake Not for the World-Heard Thunder poem – A. E. Housman
- Dissolve in kisses, I would like to dissolve in your kisses
- AN INSPIRATIONAL VILLANELLE: by Manish Thakur
- King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again by Vachel Lindsay
- Early Morning by Victoria Bukofske
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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
