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:
- Oh Masters
- Николай Заболоцкий – Зеленый луч
- Remembering Mountain Men by William Stafford
- Eclogue:–John, Jealous At Shroton Feäir by William Barnes
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Дневник
- phantasm.html
- Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
- Владимир Маяковский – Слегка нахальные стихи товарищам из ЭМКАХИ
- Олег Григорьев – Приехала жена из Сочи
- Юнна Мориц – Побег
- Ballad Of The Despairing Husband by Robert Creeley
- Михаил Лермонтов – Чаша жизни
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope
- Childhood by Margaret Walker
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
- Starlight
- Song Of The Peri
- Song Of The Parao Camping Ground
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Ramesram Temple Girl
- Song Of Khan Zada
- Song Of Jasoda
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- Song By Gulbaz
- Sleep
- Shivratri The Night Of Shiva While The Procession Passed At Ramesram
- Sher Afzul
- Sea Song
- Sampan Song
- Rutland Gate
- Reverie Zahir U Din
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
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
