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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
- To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Evening in a Sugar Orchard by Robert Frost
- Dream-Forest by Siegfried Sassoon
- Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
- The Country House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алишер Навои – Эти губы точно розы
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Goldsmith by Siegfried Sassoon
- Thinking For Berky by William Stafford
- Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Маринин – К нам тётя соседка заходит на чай
- My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing by William Cowper
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
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.