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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Здесь сидел ты, Валет
- The Cap And Bells; Or, The Jealousies: A Faery Tale — Unfinished poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб жизнь трудовую наладить заново
- The Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To Elizabeth Ward Perkins poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна)
- Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
- Village Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Сложный предмет
- Ольга Берггольц – О, где ты запела
- Стефан Малларме – Подавленное тучей
- Mark
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
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