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:
- Conviction (iv) by Stevie Smith
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Missing Person by Vinita Agrawal
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Возвращение
- Robert Burns: Inscription At Friars’ Carse Hermitage: To the Memory of Robert Riddell.
- The Water-Spring In The Leäne by William Barnes
- Daphnis And Chloe poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- Василий Жуковский – Там небеса и воды ясны
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- Magnolia Shoals by Sylvia Plath
- A Goodnight by William Carlos Williams
- Dream Landing by Satish Verma
- Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden
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
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