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:
- In Token Of The Love You Gave by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- In Imitation of Spenser : The Alley poem – Alexander Pope
- For Hans Carossa by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
- The Song Of The Jellicles by T. S. Eliot
- Contusion by Sylvia Plath
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled by William Shakespeare
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Mama I’ll Sing One For You by Shel Silverstein
- Нина Найденова – Наши игрушки
- Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал
- When Bryan Speaks by Vachel Lindsay
- How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
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