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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Геращенко
- The Alien poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Николай Глазков – Чингисхан, Батый, Аттила
- Maenad by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Наши поправки в англо-советский договор (Красный перец)
- Robert Burns: Robert Bruce’s March To Bannockburn:
- Joe Biden’s Torment
- Number 3 on the Docket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
- Le monstre by Patryck Froissart
- In Excelsis poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давно, в эпоху мрачного язычества
- The Magician by Syed Kawsar Jamal
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
- К той, что названа Кариной
- Как Лера чудо искала
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Как на Масляной неделе
- К 8-му марта
- К нам приходит в день февральский снежною тропой
- Из головы у меня не выходишь
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
- Иван Варавва – Жаворонок
- Иван Варавва – В закубанском лесу
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- Иван Варавва – Раскинет объятия поле
- Иван Варавва – Соловей на веточке
- Иван Варавва – Кубань
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Иван Варавва – На окраине села
- Иван Мятлев – Соловей
- Иван Мятлев – Старушка
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
- Иван Мятлев – Падучая звезда
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