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:
- One’s-Self I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The moon at noon by Tom Mukasa
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- A Purse-String by William Strode
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true by William Shakespeare
- Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Danny O’Dare by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: Sketch -New Year’s Day [1790]: To Mrs. Dunlop.
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 Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
- Primer by Rita Dove
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Mushrooms by Rina Ferrarelli
- Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Return To Vienna by Rita Dove
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Lady Freedom Among Us by Rita Dove
- I hear the roar of a Harley… by River Urke
- Heart To Heart by Rita Dove
- Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
- Fifth Grade Autobiography by Rita Dove
- Exit by Rita Dove
- Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
- Chocolate by Rita Dove
- Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
- Broccoli by Rina Ferrarelli
- Birth Of A Flower by Riss Ryker
- American Smooth by Rita Dove
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
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
