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:
- Зинаида Александрова – Кролики
- Elusive Lover by Renu Ayyar
- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman
- The End poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Stwonen Bwoy Upon The Pillar by William Barnes
- An Autumn-Blooming Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Paradise Regained: The First Book poem – John Milton poems
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Falling Asleep by Siegfried Sassoon
- Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song) by Robert Burns
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 26. Erin, Oh Erin. Томас Мур.
- The sky has never seen such a moon
- Robert Burns: Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves:
- Baldovan by William Topaz McGonagall
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
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