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:
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Liebestod
- The Beggars by Sylvia Plath
- The Horn Of Egremont Castle by William Wordsworth
- This by Ralph Angel
- Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
- Father And Child by William Butler Yeats
- The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Константин Бальмонт – На дальнем полюсе
- The Tenants Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- A Woman Waking by Philip Levine
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
- The Songs of the Lathes by Rudyard Kipling
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
