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:
- Федор Сологуб – Моя верховная воля
- I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
- Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
- Down in the valley by Marcin Malek
- Crows and Hawks by Richard Schiffman
- Владимир Гиляровский – Белоснежные туманы
- Олег Григорьев – Если где-то кому-то плачется
- Нина Воронель – Гаданье
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Minor Key poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Executive poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lucy Gray [or Solitude] by William Wordsworth
- Anticipation, October 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Корнилов – Боль
- The Crystal Gazer by Sara Teasdale
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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
