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 Ломоносов – Надпись благоверному и Великому князю Александру Невскому
- Олег Карелин – Фото
- The Naming Of Cats by T. S. Eliot
- Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
- Валерий Брюсов – Дождь
- Ad Magistrum Ludi by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Юлия Жадовская – Всё ты уносишь, нещадное время
- Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
- Sonnet 01
- Омар Хайям – Из края в край мы держим к смерти путь
- Василий Жуковский – К кн. Вяземскому и В.Л.Пушкину
- Ольга Седакова – Преданья о подвижниках похожи
- Before Dawn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf by Roald Dahl
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
- Zitten Out The Wold Year by William Barnes
- Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
- Woodcom’ Feast by William Barnes
- Wold Friends A-Met by William Barnes
- A Wold Friend by William Barnes
- A Witch by William Barnes
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- Vellen O’ The Tree by William Barnes
- Uncle An’ Aunt by William Barnes
- Treat Well Your Wife by William Barnes
- To Me by William Barnes
- The Zilver-Weed by William Barnes
- The Woodlands by William Barnes
- The Wold Wall by William Barnes
- The Wold Waggon by William Barnes
- The Wold Vo’k Dead by William Barnes
- The Woddy Hollow by William Barnes
- The Winter’s Willow by William Barnes
- The Window Freäm’d Wi’ Stwone 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
