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:
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – Рыбный вальсок
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- Your Time’s Comin’ by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Журнал “Крысодав”
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Смерть коня-пахаря
- Auld Maitland poem – Andrew Lang poems
- On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- “Once we were happy” by Torquato Tasso
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Rose by William Cowper
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean by William Wordsworth
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
