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:
- Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
- Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns
- Safety-Clutch poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Жадовская – Говорят придет пора
- Алексей Жемчужников – Пауза
- Insights Into History, Culture, & Creativity of Sri Lanka – Explore the Cultural Triangle
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- The Stranger poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- A Hundred Years Hence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- At His Grave
- Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay
- Orlando Furioso Canto 23 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Chris’mas Invitation by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
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
