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:
- PRESCIENCE by Satish Verma
- Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой
- English Poetry. John Townsend Trowbridge. Midwinter. Джон Таунсенд Троубридж.
- Омар Хайям – Часть людей обольщается жизнью земной
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Пятый интернационал
- Robert Burns: On A Bank Of Flowers:
- Галина Гампер – Забываю я все
- Владимир Маяковский – Глупая история
- An Epistle To Joseph Hill, Esq. by William Cowper
- At Carnoy by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пожар
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
- Path by Pierre Reverdy
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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