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:
- How to Become an Inspiration
- Владимир Маяковский – Наш паровоз, стрелой лети
- Константин Бальмонт – Электрон
- The Grizzly Bear poem – A. E. Housman
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn:
- Robert Burns: Composed In Spring:
- Омар Хайям – Мы пешки, небо же игрок
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Black magic by Mrunmayi Mandan
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прометей
- Two Views Of A Cadaver Room by Sylvia Plath
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- Robert Burns: Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie:
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
