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 Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- Николай Некрасов – Детство
- Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Читайте, деревья, стихи Гезиода
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Валерий Брюсов – К Армении
- Written In Very Early Youth by William Wordsworth
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
- Our Whole Life
- The Essay on Agriculture by Abraham Cowley
- Listen To The Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
- A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Водопад
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To L. R. E. 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