Upside Down

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.

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Poems in English 

• The Beginning by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Astronomer by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Religious Obsession — translation from Dharmamoha by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Time by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Man by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Life by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Poems On Beauty by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• One Day In Spring…. by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• On The Nature Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• My Friend, Come In These Rains — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lord Of My Life by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Lamp Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Kinu Goala’s Alley – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• In The Dusky Path Of A Dream by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• In The Country – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• I Cast My Net Into The Sea by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore
• Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

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