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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Карман
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
- To Spirituality by Nithin Purple
- Sonet 5 by William Alexander
- gum tree loved by the sky by Raj Arumugam
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Марш веселых ребят
- Владимир Британишский – Петербургский горожанин
- A Cross-Road Epitaph poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lover’s Gifts XXVIII: I Dreamt by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
- St. Winefred’s Well poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Eddi’s Service by Rudyard Kipling
- Frankincense and Myrrh poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Death & Co. by Sylvia Plath
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