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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел, Дикая Свинья и Кошка
- Владимир Высоцкий – Парня спасём, парня в детдом
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Love Sonnet XLIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Олег Григорьев – Я сам себя в пальто одел
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Cult of Lynching by Satish Verma
- Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
- To a Historian. by Walt Whitman
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- Robert Burns: Bannocks O’ Bear Meal:
- The Red Lacquer Music-Stand poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 7: Lo, in the orient when the gracious light by William Shakespeare
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
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Don’t know the answer by Vinko Kalinic
- Dog’s love by Vinko Kalinić
- Dear Traffic Signal by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Black song about a black woman and red wine by Vinko Kalinić
- Birthday party blunder by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Beautiful Stranger by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Ballad about a stinking flower by Vinko Kalinic
- Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic
- Aeneid by Virgil
- Eclogue VIII by Virgil
- Eclogue VI by Virgil
- Eclogue IV by Virgil
- Eclogue III by Virgil
- Eclogue V by Virgil
- Ecologue IX by Virgil
- Ecologue I by Virgil
- Eclogue X by Virgil
- You by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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
