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:
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Wee Thing:
- Death by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad
- Лебедев-Кумач – Священная война: стих “Вставай, страна огромная”, текст песни на Poetry Monster
- Confused and Distraught by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Альфред Теннисон – Рыцарь Галаад
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
- Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
- Ripening by Wendell Berry
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. The Old Pine. Ричард Хави.
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- The Defeat of Youth poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
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
