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:
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Николай Языков – А. А. Елагину (Была прекрасна, весела…)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Сознание
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Владимир Луговской – Та, которую я знал
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- Жан де Лафонтен – Амур и Безумие
- Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Британишский – Коптилки многолетний свет
- On Receiving A Laurel Crown From Leigh Hunt poem – John Keats poems
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Тбилисские ночи
- Ma Wonders by Miraj Patel
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
