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 Cat Perched on the Railing poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dungeon by Rabindranath Tagore
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Языков – Пушкину (О ты, чья дружба мне дороже)
- No Matter What You Write by Mac McGovern
- A Hundred Collars by Robert Frost
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Олег Бундур – Поросенок и свиньи
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Sonnet I: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase by William Shakespeare
- Flowers From Sion: Sonnet 25 – More oft than once death whispered by William Drummond
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Иванов
- Ольга Седакова – В это зыбкое скопленье
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
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
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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.