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:
- Василий Курочкин – Мы всё смешное косим, косим
- The Magi by William Butler Yeats
- I was Looking a Long While. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Гумилев – Колокол
- Dear Alzheimer’s by Maria Knox
- Follow My Directions, Please: A Fun Christian Preschool Activity
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о штангисте
- Алексей Толстой – Ты знаешь, я люблю
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- “I Know The Stars” by Sara Teasdale
- The Trout poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- once i saw a old man’s shop by tulip
- On a Prospect of T’ai-shan by Tu Fu
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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
