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:
- Lovers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Belts by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Old And New by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Night-Piece by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Март солнечный
- A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Маяковский – Нормализованная гайка (РОСТА № 171)
- Time’s Weariness poem – Alfred Austin
- The Everlasting Voices by William Butler Yeats
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Epigram at RoslinInn by Robert Burns
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Владимир Корнилов – Утро
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
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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