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:
- A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment by William Strode
- Past and Future by Sarojini Naidu
- Job Interview by William Matthews
- Summer Moon
- Robert Burns: It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ King:
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Spilt Milk by William Butler Yeats
- Иван Варавва – Раскинет объятия поле
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- Николай Глазков – Баллада о трактористе и ритуальном камне
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
- Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise by William Wordsworth
- In May by William Henry Davies
- To A May Baby by Winifred Mary Letts
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