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:
- Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare by Robert Burns
- On the Wye in May poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: A Grace After Dinner, Extempore:
- I too want to ESCAPE by Neelam Sinha
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Sonnet 07
- Владимир Вишневский – На исходе двадцатого века
- Николай Гумилев – Какою музыкой мой слух взволнован
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствует неделя ремонта! (РОСТА № 294)
- Николай Языков – Пушкину (О ты, чья дружба мне дороже)
- Michael Robartes And The Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever by Robert Burns
- Николай Гумилев – Мореплаватель Павзаний
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 English Flag by Rudyard Kipling
- The Egg-Shell by Rudyard Kipling
- The ‘eathen by Rudyard Kipling
- The Dove of Dacca by Rudyard Kipling
- The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
- The Derelict by Rudyard Kipling
- The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling
- The Declaration of London by Rudyard Kipling
- The Dead King by Rudyard Kipling
- The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
- The Comforters by Rudyard Kipling
- The Coastwise Lights by Rudyard Kipling
- The Children’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- The Captive by Rudyard Kipling
- The Burial by Rudyard Kipling
- The Broken Men by Rudyard Kipling
- The Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
- The Benefactors by Rudyard Kipling
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