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 Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Ублажаю ли душу романсом
- A Coloured Print by Shokei poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – О, если б, захватив с собой стихов диван
- Duns Scotus’s Oxford poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Resting Place
- Олег Григорьев – Зажав кузнечика в руке
- The May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- They Tell Of The Warsaw Uprising by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Anteater by Shel Silverstein
- By Broad Potomac’s Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Солоухин – У моря
- Николай Глазков – Поэтоград
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Two Views Of Withens by Sylvia Plath
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.