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:
- Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
- Владимир Маяковский – Победой увенчав Октябрьский бой… (Главполитпросвет №364)
- A Tulip Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 15. To-night the winds begin to rise poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw:
- Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Луговской – Остролистник
- Олег Бундур – Сторож
- Keeping the Dawn by Shaunna Harper
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
- Maternal Grief by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- A Journey Through The Moonlight by Russell Edson
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
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.