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 Лермонтов – Без вас хочу сказать вам много
- Lucy Gray [or Solitude] by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Костров – Срок настал, московская богема
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- 1914 II: Safety by Rupert Brooke
- Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Богач
- In Imitation of Chaucer poem – Alexander Pope
- Two Kopjes by Rudyard Kipling
- Иван Киуру – Оазис
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Not Fair
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- The Flower poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
