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:
- A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
- Низами Гянджеви – О милый друг, давно пленен я
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- On the Field of Kulicovo poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Rose Of Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Заболоцкий – Лесная сторожка
- Days Are Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- And Then It Rained by Pamela Griffiths
- Альфред Теннисон – Волшебница Шалот
- Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Владимир Маяковский – Непобедимое оружие
- The Thin People by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму
- Владислав Крапивин – В южных морях и у севера дальнего
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.