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:
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- Аля Кудряшева – Я тут недавно встретила свое прошлое
- Зинаида Александрова – Колокольчики
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Future Verdict
- Mystic by Sylvia Plath
- Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Григорьев – Яма
- A soul’s DESIRE by Neelam Sinha
- Ballad Of The Press-Gang At Shihao Village by Du Fu
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor
- I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day by William Blake
- Олег Бундур – Колыбельная для мамы
- if_i_were_king.html
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
