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:
- Олег Бундур – Железное здоровье
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- The Bard by Thomas Gray
- Why Did I Laugh Tonight? No Voice Will Tell poem – John Keats poems
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- София Парнок – Об одной лошаденке чалой
- Федор Тютчев – Как неожиданно и ярко
- Lynching
- Irish Love Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Жан де Лафонтен – Фортуна и Дитя
- The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag by Rabindranath Tagore
- Impresa by Satish Verma
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
- Bertie the Goldfish by Ross D Tyler
- Bagua by Rose Mry Boehm
- A turn of events by Ross D Tyler
- A Schoolyard Shame by Ryan Isaacson
- 600 Kilos of Muscle and Bone by Rose Mary Boehm
- Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste
- Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
- Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman
- We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste
- Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler
- The Scarecrow by Ross D Tyler
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- The missing pen by Ross D Tyler
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
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
