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:
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- A Memory by William Allingham
- Иван Киуру – Ершок с вершок
- To a Lady by William Dunbar
- The Primrose of the Rock by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Смешанный брак
- Алишер Навои – Соловей, лишенный розы, умолкает, не поет
- Иван Коневской – В небывалое
- The Wizard Way poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о Пете, толстом ребенке, и о Симе, который тонкий
- My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu
- Ок Мельникова – Обет молчания
- Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
