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:
- The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems
- The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Шекспир – Люблю твои глаза – Сонет 132
- On Presenting to a Lady a White Rose and a Red on the Tenth of June by William Somervile
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наброски песен к несостоявшемуся спектаклю по сказкам Шергина
- Wisdom by Siegfried Sassoon
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – Наш учитель истории
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- Inscription For A Stone Erected At The Sowing Of A Grove Of Oaks At Chillington, Anno 1790 by William Cowper
- And ask ye why these sad tears stream? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Poem about Lemonade
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- Альфред де Мюссе – Печаль
- The Child Is Father To The Man 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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.