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:
- To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Minstrel At Lincluden:
- Free Poetry Competitions – Prepare to Win The Next Poetry Competition That You Enter!
- Plato
- Владимир Степанов – Галочка-считалочка
- Get together by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Holy Thursday (Experience) by William Blake
- The Fable by Yvor Winters
- A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts by Wallace Stevens
- The Coronet poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- Олег Бундур – Я рисую картину
- As At Thy Portals Also Death. by Walt Whitman
- 25 Minutes To Go by Shel Silverstein
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Жрец искусства
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.