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:
- Ольга Седакова – Хильдегарда
- Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- An Art by Satish Verma
- Олег Григорьев – К себе домой из дальних стран
- Black Stone On Top Of Nothing by Philip Levine
- A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor:
- On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
- Алексей Толстой – Прогулка с подругой жизни
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- Brothers poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
