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:
- Олег Бундур – Я вырасту, мама
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- An Hymn To The Evening by Phillis Wheatley
- The Fairies by William Allingham
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- INTO THE LAIR by Satish Verma
- Николай Заболоцкий – Портрет
- Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125
- Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack by Rudyard Kipling
- A March Day in London poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Drear-Nighted December poem – John Keats poems
- A February Night poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Жан де Лафонтен – Кошка, превращенная в женщину
- September, 1819 by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Высотская – Снежный кролик
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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.