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:
- “Could I but leave men wiser by my song ” poem – Alfred Austin
- A Painting Morning
- Robert Burns: Inscription At Friars’ Carse Hermitage: To the Memory of Robert Riddell.
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- Sonnet III: Look In Thy Glass, and Tell the Face Thou Viewest by William Shakespeare
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль спину придется мне гнуть или нет
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
- Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
- The Innocence by Robert Creeley
- Федор Сологуб – Лиловато-розовый закат
- I See Your Beauty by Ronald G. Auguste
- Юлия Друнина – Забытая тетрадь, Истертые листы
- Clover by Sidney Lanier
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
