Upside Down

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.

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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 

• England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Emperors And Kings, How Oft Have Temples Rung by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Dion [See Plutarch] by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Crusaders by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed While The Author Was Engaged In Writing A Tract Occasioned By The Convention Of Cintra by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed on The Eve Of The Marriage Of A Friend In The Vale Of Grasmere by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed In The Valley Near Dover, On The Day Of Landing by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed During A Storm by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed By The Side Of Grasmere Lake 1806 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed By The Sea-Side, Near Calais, August 1802 by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed At The Same Time And On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Composed After A Journey Across The Hambleton Hills, Yorkshire by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Character Of The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel. by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
• “Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate” by William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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.

 

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