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:
- Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
- What the Ghost of the Gambler Said by Vachel Lindsay
- In the spring twilight by Sappho
- Supernatural Songs by William Butler Yeats
- Ярослав Смеляков – Три витязя
- Binsey Poplars poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Storm-Racked poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Youth by Sarojini Naidu
- Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith
- The Happy Warrior by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- The Mermaid poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Яков Полонский – Наплывает туча с моря
- Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. by Robert Burns
- Владимир Корнилов – Игра судьбы
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.