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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Дачный случай
- To a Certain Civilian. by Walt Whitman
- St. Andrew’s Bay poem – Andrew Lang poems
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor by Phillis Wheatley
- Brothers poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Dedication For A Plot Of Ground by William Carlos Williams
- Юлия Жадовская – Я все хочу расслушать
- Cavalry Crossing a Ford. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – Февраль
- Николай Гумилев – Избиение женихов
- Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause:
- Anguish of Fate by Pierre Reverdy
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- Владимир Маяковский – Братство РОСТА БН
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.