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:
- Владимир Степанов – Зима
- The Gardener IV: Ah Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Editor by William Ellery Leonard
- On A Battered Beauty (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Альфред де Мюссе – Намуна
- Омар Хайям – До того, как мы чашу судьбы изопьем
- Meditatio poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Реклама журнала “Огонек”
- To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Why do ye torture me? by Patrick Pearse
- The Road to Avignon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To The Don poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Woman by Tala Bar
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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
