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:
- On Calais Sands poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Fallen Majesty by William Butler Yeats
- Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Silence In The Church
- Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
- Валерий Брюсов – И небо и серое море
- The Redeemer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Book Review – The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
- The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Night Ray by Paul Celan
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- A Gift poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – По городам Союза
- Where Are You?
- Sound And Sense poem – Alexander Pope
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