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:
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение о проданной телятине
- At Queensferry by William Ernest Henley
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ольга Берггольц – Пахнет соснами, гарью, тленьем
- Lost Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия (Он жил в сем мире для того)
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope
- Вера Павлова – В ранец тетрадки собраны
- Альфред Теннисон – Нищая и король
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- The Leaden-Eyed by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Бундур – Ранним утром
- Brother by Shashini Fernanadez
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.