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:
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- Алексей Жемчужников – Прелюдия к прощальным песням
- A Night-Piece by William Wordsworth
- Иван Киуру – Звездный полет
- Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen:
- Jazz by Roland Bastien
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- American Feuillage. by Walt Whitman
- The Sonnet, The Lady, And The Prince by William Alexander
- Robert Burns: Winter: A Dirge:
- The Lady of Shalott | Best Love Poems
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Заболоцкий – Горийская симфония
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur
- Long Long Ago by Robert Desnos
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
