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:
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- The Rendezvous
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- Николай Глазков – Поэзия! Ты не потерпишь фальши
- Trees poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Stanzas by William Wordsworth
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,: Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
- The Thorns In The Geäte by William Barnes
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
- The Pro-Consuls by Rudyard Kipling
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- Вероника Тушнова – У всех бывают слабости минуты
- It Is No Spirit Who From Heaven Hath Flown by William Wordsworth
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
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- Bituminous? by Shel Silverstein
- Bigtime by Shel Silverstein
- Better Not Ask Me by Shel Silverstein
- Whatif by Shel Silverstein
- Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
- The Toucan by Shel Silverstein
- The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt by Shel Silverstein
- Rain by Shel Silverstein
- Rain by Shel Silverstein
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- One Inch Tall by Shel Silverstein
- It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein
- God’s Wheel by Shel Silverstein
- Forgotten Language by Shel Silverstein
- Danny O’Dare by Shel Silverstein
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
- Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein
- Batty by Shel Silverstein
- Ations by Shel Silverstein
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