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:
- Николай Тихонов – Инд
- Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
- Closing by William Butler Yeats
- Human Spirit by Shawn Ervin
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
- Olney Hymn 55: The Heart Healed And Changed By Mercy by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Winter: A Dirge:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Book Ninth [Residence in France] by William Wordsworth
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
- Dawlish poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.html
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
