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:
- A VOW TO VENUS by Robert Herrick
- 600 Kilos of Muscle and Bone by Rose Mary Boehm
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point by Siegfried Sassoon
- I Will by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Георгий Иванов – Теперь, когда быстрее лавы
- Metaphors Of A Magnifico by Wallace Stevens
- In September poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Identity poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo by Robert Burns
- The Arrival Of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
- The Rwose In The Dark by William Barnes
- Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
- The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I poem – John Milton poems
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- Владимир Ладыженский – Христос Воскрес, скворцы поют
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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
