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:
- Наум Коржавин – Гамлет
- Apologetic Postscript Of A Year Later by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- Владимир Корнилов – Гумилев
- As Vanquish’d Erin by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь автомобиль
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чатырдаг
- Vegetable Swallow by Tristan Tzara
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanack by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё меньше вас, участники войны
- Woods by Wendell Berry
- Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
- Duncan Gray by Robert Burns
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
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Ambulances by Philip Larkin
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Wisteria by Philip Levine
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
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
