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:
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
- Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath
- To The Unattainable
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ходоки
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 154: The little Love-god lying once asleep by William Shakespeare
- The Rowing Song by Roald Dahl
- What time are we living in by T. Wignesan
- Lover’s Gifts VIII: There Is Room for You by Rabindranath Tagore
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- A November Night by Sara Teasdale
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- City of Orgies. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: The Braw Wooer:
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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