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:
- Василий Жуковский – К Нине (О Нина, о Нина)
- Robert Burns: Poortith Cauld And Restless Love:
- The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal’vin by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Привет старому 1858-му году
- Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth
- A Requisition to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Лягушонка
- Valedictory poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Poppies on Ludlow Castle by Willa Cather
- Invitation
- A Hedge Of Rubber Trees poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- At Night 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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
