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:
- The Sound Of Music -a Ghazal by Umamaheswari Anandane
- A man toiled on a burning road by Stephen Crane
- Le Christianisme by Wilfred Owen
- The Blessed Birth by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- Song of Diego Valdez by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie:
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как у Керзона с обедом разрасталась аппетитов зона
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- Masonic Song—Ye Sons of Old Killie by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Земля и небо
- Sadness and Joy by William Henry Davies
- Sonnet 19 poem – John Milton poems
- I Have Loved Hours At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
- An Improvisation For Angular Momentum poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.