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:
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- A Channel Passage by Rupert Brooke
- Олег Григорьев – Зажав кузнечика в руке
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- Иван Киуру – От северной половины земного шара
- Аля Кудряшева – Пой мне еще, что я могу изменить
- Not quite dark yet by Yosa Buson
- Олег Григорьев – Секрет
- dear owl, forlorn like King Lear by Raj Arumugam
- Ольга Берггольц – Первое письмо на Каму
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
- Troopin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- The Sparrow’s Nest by William Wordsworth
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 152: In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn 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
- In a Spring Grove by William Allingham
- Half-waking by William Allingham
- Down on the Shore by William Allingham
- Autumnal Sonnet by William Allingham
- An Evening by William Allingham
- Amy Margaret’s Five Year Old by William Allingham
- After Sunset by William Allingham
- Aeolian Harp by William Allingham
- Adieu to Belshanny by William Allingham
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
- A Singer by William Allingham
- A Seed by William Allingham
- A Memory by William Allingham
- A Gravestone by William Allingham
- A Dream by William Allingham
- A Day-Dream’s Reflection by William Allingham
- Zunsheen In The Winter by William Barnes
- Zummer Thoughts In Winter Time by William Barnes
- Zummer Evenèn Dance by William Barnes
- A Zong by William Barnes
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
