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:
- Кондратий Рылеев – Палей
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- Илья Зданевич – Опять на жизненную скуку
- A Green Stream. by Wang Wei
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
- Complaint Prometheus
- Ars Poetica
- The Thief
- The Country House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Sonnet. To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall poem – John Keats poems
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
- Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
- Василий Каменский – Из Симеиза в Алупку
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Василий Казин – Ожидание
- Василий Казин – Ну, тебя ль, далекая
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- Василий Казин – Кирилл и Мефодий
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Василий Казин – Эпоха
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
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