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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Порт
 - Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
 - A Consolation to Cuckholds by William Wycherley poems
 - Before Sleep poem – Ezra Pound poems
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 - Robert Burns: Address To The Woodlark:
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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
- Demeter And Persephone poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Dedication poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Cradle Song poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come not when I am dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come Into The Garden, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Come down, O Maid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Claribel poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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 - Break, Break, Break poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Boadicea poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Blow, Bugle, Blow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Beautiful City poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Battle Of Brunanburgh poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Audley Court poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Ask Me No More poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - And ask ye why these sad tears stream? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Amphion poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.