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:
- Олег Бундур – Собираемся в гости
- Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- Федор Сологуб – Забыв о счастьи, о весельи
- Thisbes Song
- YOU ARE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY by Steve Troyanovich
- Universe poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- What is Forged Steel Roll and How is it Involved in Industry?
- Robert Burns: Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The:
- Владимир Маяковский – Было с белым много дел… (Главполитпросвет №44)
- Robert Burns: Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Смерть врача
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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