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:
- Владимир Маяковский – За женщиной
- Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan.
- Владимир Высоцкий – О знаках Зодиака
- Какое это счастье – Материнство
- A Question by Robert Frost
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
- Олег Григорьев – Прометей
- The Hope of the Resurrection by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот и настал этот час опять
- Impromptu on Dumourier’s Desertion of the French Republican Army by Robert Burns
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Британишский – Первая послевоенная осень
- Queen Mab in the Village by Vachel Lindsay
- The Alchemist in the City poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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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
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.