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:
- Олег Бундур – Дрова
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владислав Крапивин – А по ночам у высокого плетня
- Bring Wine by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Melinda Mae by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищу Нетте, пароходу и человеку
- Владимир Костров – Ботанический сад МГУ
- Dreaming of Li Po by Tu Fu
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
- Михаил Кузмин – Вы белое бургундское вино
- The British
- Владислав Ходасевич – Обо всем в одних стихах не скажешь
- Poem65
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
