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:
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- Look not in my eyes, for fear poem – A. E. Housman
- O Blush Not So! poem – John Keats poems
- Love Flower
- By Moschus by William Cowper
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- Николай Заболоцкий – Слепой
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- Both ways I lose by Tanisha Avarsekar
- A Souless Singer poem – Alfred Austin
- The Hut
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- A Tribute to Dr. Murison by William Topaz McGonagall
- STONEWASHED by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
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
