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:
- Стефан Малларме – О, зеркало
- The Victory by Shahida Latif
- From The Italian Of Michael Angelo by William Wordsworth
- Flutter by Rashmi Sreekumar
- O You by Satish Verma
- Wish by W. S. Merwin
- On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- In Imitation of Chaucer poem – Alexander Pope
- Moonless darkness stands between poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Love Gregor; Or, The Lass Of Lochroyan poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- Let A Florid Music Praise by W H Auden
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
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
