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:
- Future Verdict
- Ballad Of The Despairing Husband by Robert Creeley
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- Testing The Bomb by Shel Silverstein
- Юлия Друнина – Русский вечер
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- drunkenness.html
- Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee poem – Zameer Careem poems | Poetry Monster
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- Николай Языков – А. В. Тихвинскому (Как знать, куда моя дорога)
- Utopia by Ndue Ukaj
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.