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 Сологуб – Под черёмухой цветущей
- Dedication To A Book Of Stories Selected From The Irish Novelists by William Butler Yeats
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- To a Discarded Toast by William Somervile
- The Dawn Of American Literature
- The Perfect High by Shel Silverstein
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Unsaid by Victoria Bukofske
- Владимир Корнилов – Лермонтов
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
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
- To a Virtuous Young Lady poem – John Milton poems
- The Passion poem – John Milton poems
- The Hymn poem – John Milton poems
- The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet to the Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 23 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 22 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 21 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 20 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 19 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 18 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 17 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 16 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 15 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 14 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 13 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 12 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 11 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Sonnet 09 poem – John Milton poems
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
