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:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Всевышний произнес свой приговор
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Высотская – Я зубы стисну, губы закушу
- Федор Сологуб – Терцинами писать как будто очень трудно
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
- The One-Legged Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бивак
- Ольга Ермолаева – Просила тебя у мертвой и выпросила у мертвой
- One Song, America, Before I Go. by Walt Whitman
- Dedication To Lady Windsor poem – Alfred Austin
- Константин Бальмонт – Мудрецы говорят
- Mohay Apnay Hi Rung Mein poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Каждый день и каждый миг судьбу благодарю
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
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
- For What As Easy by W H Auden
- Five Songs – II by W H Auden
- Fish in the Unruffled Lakes by W H Auden
- Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden
- Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden
- Edward Lear by W H Auden
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
- Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly by W H Auden
- Two Songs for Hedli Anderson by W. H. Auden
- The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
- The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
- September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden
- On the Circuit by W. H. Auden
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
- In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden
- If I could tell you by W. H. Auden
- For Friends Only by W. H. Auden
- Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
- Death’s Echo by W H Auden
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
