All afternoon
the tree shadows, accelerating,
lengthened
till
sunset
shot them black into infinity:
next morning
darkness
returned from the other
infinity and the
shadows caught ground
and through the morning, slowing,
hardened into noon.
A few random poems:
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Lover’s Gifts V: I Would Ask For Still More by Rabindranath Tagore
- Give Me Back My Rags #11 by Vasko Popa
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Homer’s Seeing-Eye Dog by William Matthews
- Trendy Madness In Fashion Meccas
- Наум Коржавин – Меня, как видно, Бог не звал
- Олег Григорьев – Слезы
- Valhalla
- Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- The Death of Nicou by Thomas Chatterton
- As Dies The Year poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Заболоцкий – В тайге
- I had a little nut-tree, by Roald Dahl
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
Archie Randolph Ammons (1926-2001) was an important American poet, a modern classic, Ammons wrote about our relationship to nature in a way that is both comic and solemn. His poems often address religious and philosophical matters and scenes involving nature in a manner that is almost transcendental.