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:
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – О нашей встрече
- Ballade Of His Books poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Высотская – Здравствуй, праздник
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Like A Vocation by W H Auden
- Владимир Вишневский – Заявка на романс
- Владимир Корнилов – Место
- Алексей Толстой – Угораздило кофейник
- Malaria
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
