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.
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- Олег Бундур – Шляпа
- Михаил Лермонтов – Жена севера
- The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Юлия Друнина – Два вечера
- The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus by William Butler Yeats
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- The Birch-Tree at Loschwitz poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- Альфред Теннисон – Годива
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.