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:
- Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Языков – Пушкину (О ты, чья дружба мне дороже)
- К 8-му марта
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- Владимир Маяковский – Со страхом и трепетом открывали газету… (РОСТА №705)
- Advice To A Girl by Sara Teasdale
- The Fearful by Sylvia Plath
- How I Walked Alone in the Jungles of Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
- The Lotus by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Корнилов – Чистый лист
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. by William Cowper
- The Tenants Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Ольга Берггольц – Песня о ленинградской матери
- Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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.