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:
- In Every Direction by Ralph Angel
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Лучшая музыка в мире)
- On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Владимир Степанов – Гусь и цыплёнок
- The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan
- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Юлия Друнина – Сверстницам
- Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away:
- Sleepless by Sara Teasdale
- Epigram : To Leonora Singing At Rome (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.