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:
- Hawk poem – Andrew Demcak poems | Poems and Poetry
- Why the Young Men Are So Ugly by Tony Hoagland
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, крестьянин (РОСТА №463)
- Юрий Коринец – Стихи о вшах
- The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 34: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day by William Shakespeare
- On A Similar Character (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Люблю тебя
- Олег Бундур – В саду
- The Louse-Hunters poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song) by Robert Burns
- Le Directeur by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Корнилов – На колоннаде
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
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
- In the Home Stretch by Robert Frost
- In Neglect by Robert Frost
- In Hardwood Groves by Robert Frost
- In a Vale by Robert Frost
- In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost
- Immigrants by Robert Frost
- II. The Pauper Witch of Grafton by Robert Frost
- I Will Sing You One-O by Robert Frost
- I. The Witch of Coös by Robert Frost
- Hyla Brook by Robert Frost
- Home Burial by Robert Frost
- Hannibal by Robert Frost
- Good Hours by Robert Frost
- Good-by and Keep Cold by Robert Frost
- Going for Water by Robert Frost
- Ghost House by Robert Frost
- Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost
- Fragmentary Blue by Robert Frost
- For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
- Flower-Gathering by Robert Frost
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