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:
- An Act of Faith by Talha Jafri
- Ode For Ted by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- Fragment of Song—The Night was Still by Robert Burns
- Николай Гумилев – Леопарди (Набросок)
- Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to an Excise Division by Robert Burns
- Владимир Корнилов – Неподвижность
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot poem – Alexander Pope
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- The Host Of The Air by William Butler Yeats
- The Hour Before Dawn by William Butler Yeats
- 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
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
- Piera Chen – Piera Chen
- IN VINCULUM by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- I threaded a garland with the memories of a spring… by Preeth Nambiar
- Hoppleroopleoopledook by Pornika Ganguly
- Greece Madum…! by Perugu Ramakrishna
- Frozen by Priyanka Tungana
- From Another Sky by Pierre Reverdy
- Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
- Forbidden Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- Elijah by Peter Bardsley
- Eating a Wampee by Piera Chen
- Dying Love!!! by Praveen Parasar
- Diving Deep by Pawan Kumar
- Dead On Arrival by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Creators by Pawan Kumar
- Composition by Peter Cooley
- Coconut by Paul Hostovsky
- Childhood Memories by Preethi Saravanakumar
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
