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:
- Алексей Толстой – Прогулка с подругой жизни
- Владимир Маяковский – Врангель – фон… (РОСТА №472)
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Карл Сэндберг – Джаз-фантазия
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
- A Welcome by William Browne
- Владимир Луговской – Мертвый хватает живого
- For Anne Gregory by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Важнейший совет домашней хозяйке
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved by William Cowper
- On The Author Of Letters On Literature by William Cowper
- No! by Thomas Hood
- Atavism by William Stafford
- Вера Полозкова – Детство
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