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:
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- The Gardener XX: Day After Day He Comes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Ольга Седакова – Вечерняя песня
- Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns
- Auld Maitland poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
- Awakening by mike yuan
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Владимир Британишский – 1942 год
- A Friend Forever
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.