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:
- A Christmas Carol by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Immigrant
- Antaeus: [A Fragment] by Wilfred Owen
- Владимир Высоцкий – Там были генеральши, были жёны офицеров
- A Piece Of The Storm by Mark Strand
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Ржевский – Рондо (И всякий так живет)
- Владимир Вишневский – Звучит воинственно: “носки”
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Funeral Poem on the Death of C.E. by Phillis Wheatley
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Валерий Брюсов – Ленин
- Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Pañuelos de La Alhambra by Mara Romero Torres
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
- Hear the Voice by William Blake
- Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
- French Revolution, The (excerpt) by William Blake
- I Saw a Chapel by William Blake
- I Heard an Angel by William Blake
- Broken Love by William Blake
- Eternity by William Blake
- Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
- Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
- A Cradle Song by William Blake
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- A Dream by William Blake
- Infant Joy by William Blake
- Evening Star by William Blake
- Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Infant Sorrow by William Blake
- If It Is True What the Prophets Write by William Blake
- How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
- Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
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