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:
- An Epitaph On The Marchioness Of Winchester poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Дурацкий сон (РОСТА №234)
- To the Muse poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Яков Полонский – Не жди
- From My Last Years. by Walt Whitman
- Terminal by Sylvia Plath
- Cloudy Sky by Shel Silverstein
- Алексей Хомяков – Раскаявшейся России
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- Come, Send Round the Wine by Thomas Moore
- Blow, Bugle, Blow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Омар Хайям – Египет, Рим, Китай держи ты под пятой
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Современная идиллия
- Eudaemon
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
- first_light.html
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- drunkenness.html
- do_not_get_angry.html
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- dawned_again.html
- create.html
- conference_swan_beauty.html
- colors_and_sounds.html
- children039s_eyes.html
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- alexander.html
- acts_of_love.html
- a_single_man.html
- a_poem.html
- a_dialogue.html
- a_city_one_wish.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
