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 MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by Robert Herrick
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
- Written With A Slate Pencil On A Stone, On The Side Of The Mountain Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
- A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
- Foreign Missions in Battle Array by Vachel Lindsay
- Where My Sight Goes by Yvor Winters
- Searching by Mike Yuan
- Meeting at an Airport by Taha Muhammad Ali
- Like The Water by Wendell Berry
- Как живёшь ветеран милиции
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Evasion. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Низами Гянджеви – Если б радость не лучилась
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