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:
- Юлий Даниэль – Ах, недостреляли, недобили
- At Algeciras; A Meditaton Upon Death by William Butler Yeats
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- Константин Бальмонт – Море – вечное стремленье, горы – царственный покой
- The Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- Day’s End by Tu Fu
- Busy Heart, The by Rupert Brooke
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- Алексей Плещеев – Лучше гибель без возврата
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- My Mask poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- A Wasted Illness by Thomas Hardy
- A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- A Dream Or No by Thomas Hardy
- Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
- To the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
- The Last Man by Thomas Campbell
- The Dirge of Wallace by Thomas Campbell
- The Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell
- Song to the Evening Star by Thomas Campbell
- Ode to Winter by Thomas Campbell
- Ode to the Memory of Burns by Thomas Campbell
- Love And Madness by Thomas Campbell
- Lord Ullin’s Daughter by Thomas Campbell
- Hohenlinden by Thomas Campbell
- Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell
- Freedom And Love by Thomas Campbell
- Benlomond by Thomas Campbell
- Adelgitha by Thomas Campbell
- The Resignation by Thomas Chatterton
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.