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:
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture:
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- interpret_the_light.html
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Olney Hymn 26: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer by William Cowper
- Николай Заболоцкий – Мир однолик, но двойственна природа
- Planet Earth by P. K. Page
- Pomona by William Morris
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Жрец искусства
- Gratitude, Addressed To Lady Hesketh by William Cowper
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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
- Early summer rain by Yosa Buson
- Dawn by Yosa Buson
- Coolness by Yosa Buson
- Calligraphy of geese by Yosa Buson
- Buying leeks by Yosa Buson
- Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
- Blow of an ax by Yosa Buson
- Before the white chrysanthemum by Yosa Buson
- A bat flits by Yosa Buson
- Untitled XXVII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXVI by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXV by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXIX by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXIV by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XXI by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XX by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XVIII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XVII by Yunus Emre
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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.