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:
- Геннадий Айги – БЕЗ НАЗВАНИЯ
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько я, сколько я видел на свете их
- Hurting Dive by Satish Verma
- Кондратий Рылеев – К портрету
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Ольга Ермолаева – Я так же, как ты, от стыда опускаю ресницы
- On The Wedding Of The Aeronaut poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты не любишь считать облака
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – За женщиной
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
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
- The End by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Child-Angel by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Chanpa Flower by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Boat by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Banyan Tree by Rabindranath Tagore
- Superior by Rabindranath Tagore
- Strong Mercy by Rabindranath Tagore
- Still Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
- Song Unsung by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sleep by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore
- Silent Steps by Rabindranath Tagore
- Signet of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- She by Rabindranath Tagore
- Senses by Rabindranath Tagore
- Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- Salutation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sail Away by Rabindranath Tagore
- Roaming Cloud by Rabindranath Tagore
- Purity 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
