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:
- Владимир Британишский – Паллас
- Flamenco Flamingo by Ross D Tyler
- Владимир Британишский – Петербургский горожанин
- Владимир Высоцкий – Свет потушите, вырубите звук
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Теперь я в Камби, милый мой)
- The Bridge by Russell Edson
- Honor Among Scamps by Vachel Lindsay
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- Allegory Of The Cave by Stephen Dunn
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- Sonnet: Before He Went poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Ужасающая фамильярность
- Robert Burns: A Fiddler In The North:
- Where Are You
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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