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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Били раз… (РОСТА №631)
- Аля Кудряшева – Если ты, к примеру, кролик с шелковистыми ушами
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Владимир Степанов – Кот
- Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Николай Рубцов – Хороший улов
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
- Here’s to the Mice! by Vachel Lindsay
- Константин Бальмонт – Если грустно тебе
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оплавляются свечи на старинный паркет
- Gordon Of Brackley poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sit Smiling by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Leto and Niobe by Sappho
- It’s no use by Sappho
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- It is the Muses by Sappho
- I took my lyre and said by Sappho
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- Hymn To Aphrodite by Sappho
- Hesperus The Bringer by Sappho
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- Grace by Sappho
- Like the gods. . . by Sappho
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
- Evening by Sappho
- Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, by Sappho
- Dica by Sappho
- Cyprian, in my dream by Sappho
- Claïs by Sappho
- Blame Aphrodite by Sappho
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
