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:
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- The Fearful by Sylvia Plath
- A Practical Young Woman poem – Irwin Russell “,
- On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills by Yvor Winters
- France, the 18th year of These States. by Walt Whitman
- Gorgeous Surfaces by Thomas Lux
- Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка
- The Sheep and the Bush by William Somervile
- Memo to my Spouse by Adeola Ikuomola
- Зинаида Александрова – Белочка
- Sonnet CXXI by William Shakespeare
- Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust by Sir Philip Sidney
- Огюст Барбье – Сегодня я в пути
- doughnuts for sale by Raj Arumugam
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton 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
