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:
- May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Second-Election Day
- On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
- Омар Хайям – Не у тех, кто во прах государства поверг
- Николай Некрасов – Демону
- Владимир Маяковский – Работникам стиха и прозы, на лето едущим в колхозы
- Николай Огарев – С полуночи ветер холодный подул
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Rosemary by Marianne Moore
- Home Sick
- Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- I Just Wanna Make You Mine Girl by Miraj Patel
- The Dying Christian to His Soul poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
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
- A Zong Of Harvest Hwome by William Barnes
- A Wife A-Praïs’d by William Barnes
- A-Haulen O’ The Corn by William Barnes
- A Good Father by William Barnes
- A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
- Ballade of Dead Actors by William Ernest Henley
- Youth And Beauty by William Carlos Williams
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- from Book I, Paterson by William Carlos Williams
- Flowers By The Sea by William Carlos Williams
- Dedication For A Plot Of Ground by William Carlos Williams
- Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams
- Complete Destruction by William Carlos Williams
- Complaint by William Carlos Williams
- Children’s Games by William Carlos Williams
- Blizzard by William Carlos Williams
- Berket And The Stars by William Carlos Williams
- Aux Imagistes by William Carlos Williams
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
