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 Betrothed by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 136: If thy soul check thee that I come so near by William Shakespeare
- Me’th Below The Tree by William Barnes
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- Teignmouth: “Some Doggerel,” Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 1 by Robert Burns
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- to_his_coy_mistress.html
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Шумики, шумы и шумищи
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gate by Marie Howe
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.