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:
- Indignation Of A High-Minded Spaniard by William Wordsworth
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Nasrudin’s donkey eats poetry by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бедняк
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Ольга Берггольц – Я все оставляю тебе при уходе
- Константин Бальмонт – Нам нравятся поэты
- On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston by Robert Burns
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
- Seed Time And Harvest
- Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
- Зинаида Александрова – Карманный фонарик
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.