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:
- As the Bell Clinks by Rudyard Kipling
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
- Dionysus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Нина Воронель – Аэродром
- Олег Бундур – Уборка
- Владислав Крапивин – Все спит в тропической ночи
- Dead Musicians by Siegfried Sassoon
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- Юрий Галансков – Мне больно
- Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
- A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To My Lord Fairfax poem – John Milton poems
- Beautiful Moroccan by Stanley Wilkin
- The Mocking Fairy by Walter de la Mare
- Hoffer by William Wordsworth
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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