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:
- Анатолий Жигулин – О, Родина, в неярком блеске
- The Polar Koala Bear by Robby Charters
- Us Two by AA Milne
- Владимир Маяковский – Был без работы буржуям пир… (Главполитпросвет №24)
- On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Все давайте советской республике, все получите от советской республики (РОСТА № 293)
- The Hands That Hang Down
- Early Pla Meäte by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: The Inventory: In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
- One Day In Spring…. by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Седакова – Три богини
- The rainy Pleiads wester poem – A. E. Housman
- Sussex by Rudyard Kipling
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.