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:
- All Saints Day 1867
- Robert Burns: To John Kennedy, Dumfries House:
- An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- Called Into Play poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- The White Road Up Athirt The Hill by William Barnes
- Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase by William Shakespeare
- An Hymn To Humanity by Phillis Wheatley
- Under the Greenwood Tree by William Shakespeare
- Another Song by Philip Levine
- Second Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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
