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:
- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- March Evening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Moonless darkness stands between poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Masonic Song:
- Robert Burns: To Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan: In answer to an obliging Letter he sent in the commencement of my poetic career.
- Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
- Зинаида Александрова – Одуванчик
- A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness by William Butler Yeats
- The Pangolin by Marianne Moore
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- Шекспир – Мои глаза в тебя не влюблены – Сонет 141
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare:
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 44. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Before The Snow poem – Andrew Lang poems
- 致老鼠的铅笔
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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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.