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 Плещеев – Есть дни, ни злоба, ни любовь
- Алишер Навои – Когда, тоскуя по тебе
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- Fragment of Song—The Night was Still by Robert Burns
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Appeal by Ndue Ukaj
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- Of Wit
- Written In Germany On One Of The Coldest Days Of The Century by William Wordsworth
- Жан де Лафонтен – Садовод и Помещик
- Николай Заболоцкий – Баллада Жуковского
- Give Me Back My Rags #12 by Vasko Popa
- Woman And The Weed poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet CVI by William Shakespeare
- Ballade Of The Voyage To Cythera poem – Andrew Lang poems
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
