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:
- Blow, Bugle, Blow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Василий Жуковский – Суд Божий над епископом
- Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
- Birds Calling in the Ravine by Wang Wei
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope
- The Copper Beech by Marie Howe
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Historion poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий! Глупость беспартийную выкинь!.. (РОСТА)
- What think You I take my Pen in Hand? by Walt Whitman
- A Sonnet Occasioned by the Bad Weather Which Hindered the Sports at New-Market in January, 1616 by William Drummond
- Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell
- Олег Сердобольский – Корова и божья коровка
- One’s-Self I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- Lessons. by Walt Whitman
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
- Indian Dancers by Sarojini Naidu
- Indian Dancer by Sarojini Naidu
- In The Forest by Sarojini Naidu
- In Salutation to the Eternal Peace by Sarojini Naidu
- In Praise Of Henna by Sarojini Naidu
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Harvest Hymn by Sarojini Naidu
- Ecstasy by Sarojini Naidu
- Damayante To Nala In The Hour Of Exile by Sarojini Naidu
- Cradle Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Coromandel Fishers by Sarojini Naidu
- Corn Grinders by Sarojini Naidu
- Autumn Song by Sarojini Naidu
- An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Alabaster by Sarojini Naidu
- A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- A Love Song from the North by Sarojini Naidu
- Wishes by Satish Verma
- WINGS ATTACHED by Satish Verma
- WHAT ENDING by Satish Verma
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
