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:
- Mi ha el by Vinko Kalinić
- In The Stone I Rooted
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Taste of Morning by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- From A Survivor
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- The Lady’s First Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Net Of Memory
- Against Unworthy Praise by William Butler Yeats
- A CANTICLE TO APOLLO by Robert Herrick
- The Realists by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше офицера только рубить учили… (РОСТА №632)
- Memorial Day For The War Dead by Yehuda Amichai
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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