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:
- I had a little nut-tree, by Roald Dahl
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – В Советской России не может быть никакого царя… (Главполитпросвет №361)
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не касайся моих чертежей
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Tables Turned by William Wordsworth
- Ethiopia Saluting the Colors. by Walt Whitman
- In The Seven Woods by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
- O Tell Me The Truth About Love by W H Auden
- Girl’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
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
- Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ancestors by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Old French Poet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Alone by Siegfried Sassoon
- Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
- Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Whispered Tale by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Subaltern by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Poplar and the Moon by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Mystic As Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Letter Home by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Night Launch by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
- LIGHT ECHOES by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Life Brings Me to this Journey. by Stephen Sweitzer
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
