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:
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- Written In Very Early Youth by William Wordsworth
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” II – Mother-Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Mrs. Scott: Gudewife of Wauchope-House, Roxburghshire.
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- A Toast To Nations
- Стефан Малларме – Подавленное тучей
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Epistle to William Simson by Robert Burns
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Angels by Russell Edson
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
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
