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:
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- Before Sleep poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Rile Me Up! by Michael D Wentworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Внимательное отношение к взяточникам
- Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62
- Melinda Mae by Shel Silverstein
- Михаил Ломоносов – Чем ты дале прочь отходишь
- Зинаида Александрова – Колокольчики
- Greengrocer by Robert McNamara
- Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
- Song—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day by Robert Burns
- Наум Коржавин – Подмосковная платформа в апреле
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Mountain Tomb by William Butler Yeats
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
- Tip-Toe-ing by Mahak Raithatha S
- They Would Love To See Me Dead by Mahmoud Darwish
- These nights by Manushya Puthiran
- The Sound Of Your Breathing by Mac McGovern
- The Pigeons Fly by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Mouse by Mac McGovern
- The Most Exquisite Creature Of My Dreams by Mac McGovern
- The Husband’s Black Hands by Mallika Sengupta
- The Frivolity of Dreaming by Mahi Chauhan
- The Eve of Saint Agnes by Malcolm Massiah
- The end by Mahak Raithatha S
- The cake by Mahak Raithatha S
- Thanksgiving by Mac Hammond
- State of Siege by Mahmoud Darwish
- Southern Song by Margaret Walker
- Soul by Malkia Charlee NoCry
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- She’s Flawless by Mandy Williams
- She Looks by Mac McGovern
- She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
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
