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:
- Seal
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Ольга Седакова – Всё, и сразу
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk by Robert Burns
- The Conclusion by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
- A Prayer For Artemis
- To Fanny poem – John Keats poems
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк
- Robert Burns: Down The Burn, Davie:
- Love is Reckless by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
