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:
- Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время
- Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint poem – John Milton poems
- The Bear, The Fire, And The Snow by Shel Silverstein
- Song—Fragment—Leezie Lindsay by Robert Burns
- The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney poem – Alexander Pope
- Нина Воронель – Дан приказ
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Олег Григорьев – Драка
- The Sailor by Rabindranath Tagore
- Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
- The Gardener XLIV: Reverend Sir, Forgive by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- Spring poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Because I’ve Learned by William Ellery Leonard
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
