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:
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- A Song at Cock-Crow by Rudyard Kipling
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
- Slough poem – John Betjeman poems
- Гавриил Державин – Подражание псалму (Терпел я, уповал на Бога)
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- Translation of a Prayer of Brutus poem – Alexander Pope
- Morning Poem #6 by Wanda Phipps
- My Heart Is Heavy by Sara Teasdale
- Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Атону
- Владимир Высоцкий – Палач
- Алексей Плещеев – Прости
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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
