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:
- Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience by William Cowper
- To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Григорьев – Полосатая оса
- France, the 18th year of These States. by Walt Whitman
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare
- Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
- But Not To Me by Sara Teasdale
- When You Go Away by W. S. Merwin
- Sonnet LXXI by William Shakespeare
- In The Pass Of Killicranky by William Wordsworth
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
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
