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:
- Юрий Левитанский – Как зарок от суесловья, как залог
- The Crown Of Thorns
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- Михаил Ломоносов – Молчите, струйки чисты
- Robert Burns: To Mary In Heaven:
- Mid-Autumn Moon by Mike Yuan
- Benlomond by Thomas Campbell
- Олег Сердобольский – Кузнечик
- Yes Dear by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Epistle to John Rankine by Robert Burns
- The Sudden Light And The Trees by Stephen Dunn
- Владимир Британишский – Округлы и оголены
- Валерий Брюсов – Искатель
- Tip tap RAIN by Neelam Sinha
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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