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:
- Омар Хайям – Дай коснуться, любимая, прядей густых
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда вдали от суеты всемирной
- Woman by Tala Bar
- Вера Павлова – Плачу, потому что не можешь со мной жить
- Olive Branch by Satish Verma
- Candle Lord
- Everything ends by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночная песня
- The Fall by Satish Verma
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- EVENING… by R.M. Engelhardt
- Wit
- To a Historian. by Walt Whitman
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
