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:
- A Tribute to Mr J. Graham Henderson, The World’s Fair Judge by William Topaz McGonagall
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- The Daguerreotype by William Vaughn Moody
- Song by William Browne
- Down on the Shore by William Allingham
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- Владимир Степанов – Почему не спят котята?
- Leaves A-Vallèn by William Barnes
- The Mystic Isle by Rainbow Reed
- Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Британишский – A за Уралом – сгустки городов
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Ольга Седакова – Азаровка
- Mowgli’s Song Against People by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet X
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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