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:
- A Hymn To Venus by Sappho
- Владимир Британишский – Глухарь
- I Found A Few Old Letters by Rabindranath Tagore
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Belts by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Глазков – Почему я отказался от самолёта
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Дафнис подслушивает сов
- The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Sonnet 07 poem – John Milton poems
- Closure by Suchi Gaur
- Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet by Robert Burns
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve by William Butler Yeats
- paralipomemnon.html
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
- Эмиль Верхарн – Завершение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Занавески
- Эмиль Верхарн – Законы
- Эмиль Верхарн – Заблуждение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я покидаю сна густую сень
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хвала человеческому телу
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Эмиль Верхарн – Хлебопечение
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вперед
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- Эмиль Верхарн – Восстание
- Эмиль Верхарн – Воскресное утро
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- Sergei Esenin (Serguei Yesenin, Sergueï Essénine) – Sounds of Sorrow
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 8
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- Джон Мильтон – По случаю своего двадцатитрехлетия
- Джон Мильтон – О своей слепоте
- Джон Мильтон – О Шекспире
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.