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:
- Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Лермонтов – Жена севера
- The Gift of the Sea by Rudyard Kipling
- Lines to Mr. John Kennedy by Robert Burns
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Ode–Shell The Old City! Shell! by William Gilmore Simms
- Borow
- Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
- Grandfather’s Love by Sara Teasdale
- A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
- Masks poem – Ezra Pound poems
- On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines by William Vaughn Moody
- Anteater by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Слегка нахальные стихи товарищам из ЭМКАХИ
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
- Angry People by Roger Hayes
- You and I by Roger McGough
- Who hears the wind by Roland Zoss
- Waiting by Rohith
- The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- The Lesson by Roger McGough
- The Leader by Roger McGough
- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Survivor by Roger McGough
- Stubborn by Roland Flint
- Soil by Roger McGough
- Silences still voice by Rohini Bhatia Singj
- Schlummerland – Slumberland / CD by Roland Zoss
- Prayer by Roland Flint
- Ladies And Gentlemen In Outer Space by Ron Padgett
- ode to love by Rohit Sridharan
- My iPod by Roland Bastien
- Mrs Moon by Roger McGough
- Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death by Roger McGough
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
