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:
- Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light by Sylvia Plath
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- Song for All Seas, All Ships. by Walt Whitman
- As Dies The Year poem – Alfred Austin
- Вера Павлова – Время уступать место
- Вера Полозкова – Мало ли кто
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Sunk Lyonesse by Walter de la Mare
- An Encounter by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: The Toadeater:
- Robert Burns: The Farewell:
- Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Springfield Magical by Vachel Lindsay
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- The Star 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
