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:
- Cupid’s Reign Of Terror (March 2012) by Stevens Cadet
- The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- Михаил Ломоносов – Богиня, дщерь божеств, науки основавших
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- A Zong by William Barnes
- Moonlight On The Door by William Barnes
- Алексей Толстой – То было раннею весной
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пещеры Кизиль-коба
- Days and Nights by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
- Must Work by Steve Downes
- Аля Кудряшева – Ночное
- Жан Расин – Андромаха
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.