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:
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- Polly In A Porny by Shel Silverstein
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- The Hermit poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle:
- The Wind In Woone’s Feäce by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Владимир Маяковский – Поляки-крестьяне, чтоб вольными быть…
- The Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Константин Бальмонт – Далеким близким
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- Вера Полозкова – Да что у меня, нормально всё, так, условно
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
- Little Flute by Rabindranath Tagore
- Light by Rabindranath Tagore
- Let Me Not Forget by Rabindranath Tagore
- Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
- Last Curtain by Rabindranath Tagore
- Journey Home by Rabindranath Tagore
- Innermost One by Rabindranath Tagore
- Give Me Strength by Rabindranath Tagore
- Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
- Free Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Fool by Rabindranath Tagore
- Flower by Rabindranath Tagore
- Farewell by Rabindranath Tagore
- Fairyland by Rabindranath Tagore
- Face To Face by Rabindranath Tagore
- Endless Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dungeon by Rabindranath Tagore
- Distant Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Colored Toys by Rabindranath Tagore
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
