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:
- Book Tenth {Residence in France continued] by William Wordsworth
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Омар Хайям – Не устану в неверном театре теней
- Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Вера Звягинцева – А если ты любишь не можешь
- On the Subject of Poetry by W. S. Merwin
- Иннокентий Анненский – Любовь к прошлому
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- Владимир Солоухин – Тропа нацелена в звезду
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Веселый ветер
- In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope
- Иван Елагин – Спрашивал ответа
- Владимир Маяковский – Небесный чердак
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
