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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
- The Ad-Dressing Of Cats by T. S. Eliot
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Марш веселых ребят
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 1 by William Somervile
- Омар Хайям – Будут гурии, мед и вино
- Robert Burns: Sweet Tibbie Dunbar:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чем больше в мире я живу
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- Song by Seamus Heaney
- Rapture by Neil Outar
- The Gadfly poem – John Keats poems
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Земля
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- An Incantation by Thomas Moore
- Palms and Hearts by Olawuyi Mutiu
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