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:
- Miracles by Siegfried Sassoon
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- divided_passion.html
- To Spirituality by Nithin Purple
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб нас не заела разруха зубами голодных годов… (Главполитпросвет №7)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нараспашку, при любой погоде
- A Father’s Hands by Scott Ransopher
- Colbert Report: Australia by Raj Arumugam
- AUTUMN GRAPES by Önder Kurt
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- In Me, Past, Present, Future meet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Remain! by Walter Savage Landor
- Ontological by Maggie Anderson
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
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
- Trio Of Love Songs by Sylvia Plath
- To Eva Descending The Stair by Sylvia Plath
- To A Jilted Lover by Sylvia Plath
- Tinker Jack And The Tidy Wives by Sylvia Plath
- The Trial Of A Man by Sylvia Plath
- The Tour by Sylvia Plath
- The Times Are Tidy by Sylvia Plath
- The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
- The Swarm by Sylvia Plath
- The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
- The Stones by Sylvia Plath
- The Snowman on the Moor by Sylvia Plath
- The Sleepers by Sylvia Plath
- The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
- The Rival by Sylvia Plath
- The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
- The Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
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.