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:
- Usurpation
- I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day by William Blake
- Наум Коржавин – Никакой истерики
- A HYMN TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- Аля Кудряшева – Дождь напевает, искрясь по зарослям
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Я для песни задушевной
- Morning In The Hospital Solarium by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Неправ, кто думает, что бог неумолим
- The Buried Train by Robert Bly
- Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- Constantias Song
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Маяковский – Забудем солдатчину!.. (РОСТА №425)
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
