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 Burnt Child by W. S. Merwin
- Олег Бундур – Почему собаки дерутся
- On Deck by Sylvia Plath
- Expostulation and Reply by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – О чем в наступающем думаем году мы
- Mother’s Day, 1993 by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Meditation For Writing – Three Tips to Improve your Writing with Creative Meditation
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- Владимир Набоков – Цветет миндаль на перекрестке
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- Poetry And Politics
- Now List to my Morning’s Romanza. by Walt Whitman
- A General Summary by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Улетевшим мечтам
- Sonnet: Before He Went poem – John Keats poems
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.