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:
- Зинаида Александрова – Венок
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Жуковский – Бородинская годовщина
- Ольга Седакова – Азаровка
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper
- The Passing Cloud by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Олег Григорьев – На боку кобура болталась
- The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Ad Olum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sonnet 96: Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness by William Shakespeare
- It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown by William Wordsworth
- Invocation by Siegfried Sassoon
- Михаил Кузмин – Все дни у Бога хороши
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister 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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
