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:
- The Window
- Жан де Лафонтен – Скупой, потерявший свое богатство
- Forest by Walter William Safar
- Insolent couplets
- Владимир Солоухин – У тихой речки детство проводя
- Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
- Алексей Жемчужников – Почему
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
- O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
- Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling
- The Crazed Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Mystic by Sylvia Plath
- Альфред де Мюссе – Песнь барберины
- Аля Кудряшева – Меня мотает тянет ведет налево
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.