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:
- Friday Night At The Royal Station Hotel by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Раздумье
- Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
- At Vaucluse poem – Alfred Austin
- A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
- Subject to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
- Between The Wars by Robert Hass
- Three Portraits Of Prince Charles poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- When Day Is Done by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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