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:
- Владимир Степанов – Как живете? Что жуете?
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- Олег Бундур – Папино влияние
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Doomes-Day: The First Houre by William Alexander
- Morning Poem #40 by Wanda Phipps
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о планах
- Persuasions to Joy, a Song by Thomas Carew
- I Dream’d in a Dream. by Walt Whitman
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- rice_pudding.html
- English Poetry. George Eliot. How Lisa Loved the King. Джордж Элиот.
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не надо
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Alexander
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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