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:
- An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Олег Бундур – Не ходите ночью
- A Visit to Yu’s Cave poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- The Dunciad: Book I. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Hart-Leap Well by William Wordsworth
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- How…? by Nizar Sartawi
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Конь
- John Bloom In Lon’on by William Barnes
- Psalm 86 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Британишский – А весна наступает все же
- Outside The Village Church poem – Alfred Austin
- In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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