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:
- Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- The Ghosts of past, the Angels of future by Vyshnav Shabu Nair
- Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet (Song) by Robert Burns
- Шекспир – Мои глаза в тебя не влюблены – Сонет 141
- Николай Карамзин – Раиса (Древняя баллада)
- Такахама Кёси – Кончик трости моей
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- Илона Грошева – Каждый год в себе несет воскресение
- Николай Заболоцкий – Гроза идет
- Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
- come_out_with_me.html
- Sonet 42 by William Alexander
- A Lament For Adonis by Sappho
- The Dirge of Wallace by Thomas Campbell
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
