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.
A few random poems:
- Los Able Minded Poets Music Review
- Жан де Лафонтен – Человек и его Изображение
- Море огней украшает причалы, вокзалы
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
- Maya by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lucky by Tony Hoagland
- Гавриил Державин – На прогулку в грузинском саду
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше иностранцы шли в Россию как разбойники и воры… (Роста №105)
- Вера Павлова – У святителя вместо спины
- Joy In Martyrdom by William Cowper
- Новелла Матвеева – Василий Андреевич
- Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney
- When I Watch the Living Meet poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- The First Part: Sonnet 2 – I know that all beneath the moon decays by William Drummond
- I Hear America Singing. by Walt Whitman
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.