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:
- Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
- Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
- Николай Языков – Песня (Я жду тебя, когда вечерней мглою)
- Алишер Навои – У пери — точка вместо уст
- To The Lord Falkland
- The Kind Word
- Ольга Седакова – Играющий ребенок
- Robert Burns: On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies:
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- Divided Destinies by Rudyard Kipling
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Твой знак пред жизнью
- Кипение
- Of Him I Love Day and Night. by Walt Whitman
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
