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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
- Song IV: Draw Near and Behold Me by William Morris
- Look Down, Fair Moon. by Walt Whitman
- Olney Hymn 28: Jesus Hasting To Suffer by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Буря и тишь
- Ярослав Смеляков – Шинель
- Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
- An Epistle To Robert Lloyd, Esq. by William Cowper
- Presentiment poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dedication by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Омар Хайям – Да пребудет вино неразлучно с тобой
- Николай Языков – Песня (От сердца дружные с вином)
- Ярослав Смеляков – Хорошая девочка Лида
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мажорный светофор, трёхцветье, трио
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
- A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke
- 1914 V: The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
- 1914 IV: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- 1914 III: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- 1914 II: Safety by Rupert Brooke
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- When Day Is Done by Rabindranath Tagore
- When and Why by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vocation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Untimely Leave by Rabindranath Tagore
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- Threshold by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Wicked Postman by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Unheeded Pageant by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Source by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Sailor by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Recall by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Lotus by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
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
