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:
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Human Tragedy ACT III poem – Alfred Austin
- How To Paint A Water Lily by Ted Hughes
- I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
- Heartbreak at 2 A.M. poem – Yuvraj Johri poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Корнилов – Тоска
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
- Федор Сологуб – Там, внизу, костры горели
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- The Artist by Sir Walter Raleigh
- At Bessemer by Philip Levine
- Василий Курочкин – Как не вскрикнуть тут с поэтом
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
