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:
- Cradle Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Silver Wedding by Vernon Scannell
- Morris Island by William Gilmore Simms
- Endymion: Book II poem – John Keats poems
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- Come From The Daisied Meadows by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Any Wife To Any Husband by Robert Browning
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Олег Бундур – Сорока
- The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владимир Маяковский – Сейчас беднее нас нет… (РОСТА №742)
- Sonnet 101: O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends by William Shakespeare
- Attadale, West Highlands by William Ernest Henley
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Strada’s Nightingale by William Cowper
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