A poem by Alan Dugan
The trees in time
have something else to do
besides their treeing. What is it.
I’m a starving to death
man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
by their fountains but I cannot drink
their mud and sunlight to be whole.
I do not understand these presences
that drink for months
in the dirt, eat light,
and then fast dry in the cold.
They stand it out somehow,
and how, the Botanists will tell me.
It is the “something else” that bothers
me, so I often go back to the forests.
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- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о вещем Олеге
- Олег Бундур – Разговор
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- La Figlia che Piange by T. S. Eliot
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- The Gamblers by Vachel Lindsay
- Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
- Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
- Certain Maxims Of Hafiz by Rudyard Kipling
- Федор Сваровский – Небесный гость в четыре лепестка
- Rutland Gate
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.