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:
- Many Inventions by Rudyard Kipling
- Farmer’s Son by William Barnes
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- Soil by Roger McGough
- The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
- “Come listen, ye students of every degree” by Tobias Smollett
- The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Владимир Костров – Полон взгляд тихой боли и страха
- They’ve Put A Brassiere On A Camel by Shel Silverstein
- Вера Полозкова – И тут он приваливается к оградке
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько я, сколько я видел на свете их
- “Wonkavite…” by Roald Dahl
- For The Anniversary Of My Death by W. S. Merwin
- Exiles by Marilyn Hacker
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про белого слона
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
