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:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- The Time Around Scars by Michael Ondaatje
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- An October Nocturne by Yvor Winters
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Карамзин – Меланхолия
- For Aun by Lynne Scott
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- Владимир Маяковский – Тамара и демон
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Indifference. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- Виктор Гончаров – Не знаю, что делать с душою
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
- Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
- Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
- Evening in a Sugar Orchard by Robert Frost
- Dust of Snow by Robert Frost
- Dust in the Eyes by Robert Frost
- Devotion by Robert Frost
- Design by Robert Frost
- Desert Places by Robert Frost
- Come In by Robert Frost
- Christmas Trees by Robert Frost
- But Outer Space by Robert Frost
- Brown’s Descent by Robert Frost
- Bond and Free by Robert Frost
- Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost
- Bereft by Robert Frost
- Atmosphere by Robert Frost
- Asking For Roses by Robert Frost
- An Old Man’s Winter Night by Robert Frost
- An Encounter by Robert Frost
- An Empty Threat 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
