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:
- Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Омар Хайям – Если гурия страстно целует в уста
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux:
- Benediction by Rabindranath Tagore
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Robert Burns: For The Sake O’ Somebody:
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Dunciad: Book I. poem – Alexander Pope
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Looking Fire
- The Dunciad: Book IV poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Огарев – Я сорвал ветку кипариса
- America by Phillis Wheatley
- A Patch of Old Snow by Robert Frost
- The Key Role of Creativity in Advertising
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
