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:
- Василий Жуковский – Море
- Merrow Down by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Карамзин – Луизе в день ее рождения 13 генваря, при вручении ей подарка
- Зинаида Александрова – Сама
- The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Girdle by William Strode
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 3 by William Somervile
- Chaap Tilak poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Чупров – Мама
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
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
- Path by Pierre Reverdy
- Pace of Life by Pierre Reverdy
- One More Awakening by Pawan Kumar
- Of You by Philo Ikonya
- O my faithful by Priyanka Tungana
- O Man by Pawan Kumar
- My Daughter by Preeth Nambiar
- Moonbeam flowers by Preeth Nambiar
- Miracles by Paul Hostovsky
- Mind Extempore by Pawan Kumar
- Lovers since Eternity by Preeth Nambiar
- Love Dale by Preeth Nambiar
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Life Passing by Pawan Kumar
- Letter to my father by Preeth Nambiar
- Let me Roam by Penny Leigh Moller
- Lamhe by Priyanka Tungana
- It is raining! by Preeth Nambiar
- It’s the Wrong Address by peggy boone
- Infinite Journey by Pawan Kumar
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