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:
- The Broomfield Hill poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Look Now On That Adventurer Who Hath Paid by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Николай Некрасов – Демону
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Publishing Poetry – How To Locate The Best Markets Where You Can See Your Poems In Print
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сказка о несчастных сказочных персонажах
- Song—She’s Fair and Fause by Robert Burns
- Как в поход я собираюсь
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
- Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground by Stephen Crane
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- It Is a Beauteous Evening by William Wordsworth
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- Николай Заболоцкий – Битва с предками
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
- Set out by Mahak Raithatha S
- Rita And The Rifle by Mahmoud Darwish
- Psalm Three by Mahmoud Darwish
- Psalm 9 by Mahmoud Darwish
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Postip by Manolo Arriola
- Poema LX, El albergue by Mara Romero Torres
- Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
- Pequeña niña mía by Mara Romero Torres
- Passport by Mahmoud Darwish
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
- Ontological by Maggie Anderson
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
- October Journey by Margaret Walker
- Nube by Manolo Arriola
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- My Mother by Mahmoud Darwish
- For My People by Margaret Walker
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
