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:
- Far Within Us #2 by Vasko Popa
- Every day I bear a burden by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Net by Sara Teasdale
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems
- Address to Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- EXISTENTIAL DILEMMMA by Satish Verma
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Языков – Е. Н. Мандрыкиной (В младой груди моей о вас воспоминанья)
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Autumn poem – John Keats poems
- At The San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters
- November 1813 by William Wordsworth
- The Hospital On The Shore
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 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
- The War Films by Sir Henry Newbolt
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists by Vachel Lindsay
- Repression of War Experience by Siegfried Sassoon
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- CIA Dope Calypso by Allen Ginsberg
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- The Paint-Kings by Washington Allston
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- On The Luxembourg Gallery by Washington Allston
- Eccentricity by Washington Allston
- Art by Washington Allston
- America To Great Britain by Washington Allston
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- The Upstairs Room by Weldon Kees
- The Smiles Of The Bathers by Weldon Kees
- The Furies by Weldon Kees
- The Doctor Will Return by Weldon Kees
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- The Beach by Weldon Kees
- Round by Weldon Kees
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