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:
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- A Defence Of English Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Дева за клавесином
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- As I lay with Head in your Lap, Camerado. by Walt Whitman
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Николай Языков – Странный случай
- Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бездна
- A Library Of Skulls by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- In The Pass Of Killicranky by William Wordsworth
- Alone In The Woods by Stevie Smith
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- Яков Полонский – Не жди
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
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.