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:
- A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers) by Wilfred Owen
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Такахама Кёси – Мимо порта родного
- Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Британишский – Екатеринбургский модерн
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Тигр и киса
- As At Thy Portals Also Death. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Гумилев – Лесной пожар
- A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Парня спасём, парня в детдом
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
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
- Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Last Wish by Théophile Gautier
- Work and Play by Ted Hughes
- Wind by Ted Hughes
- Tractor by Ted Hughes
- Thrushes by Ted Hughes
- Thistles by Ted Hughes
- The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
- The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
- The Owl by Ted Hughes
- The Minotaur by Ted Hughes
- The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes
- September by Ted Hughes
- Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes
- Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes
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
