The Copper Beech
by Marie Howe
Immense, entirely itself,
it wore that yard like a dress,
with limbs low enough for me to enter it
and climb the crooked ladder to where
I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone.
One day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell
darkening the sidewalk.
Sitting close to the center, not very high in the branches,
I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy,
watching it happen without it happening to me.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Children’s Games by William Carlos Williams
- A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. by Walt Whitman
- Doubt by Sara Teasdale
- The Callous Statues by Shahida Latif
- All in June by William Henry Davies
- Not My Enemies Ever Invade Me. by Walt Whitman
- An Epitaph by William Cowper
- Law, Like Love by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Colonel De Peyster:
- Swift’s Epitaph by William Butler Yeats
- The Truth About Propolis Benefits
- The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
- Олег Григорьев – Кресло рассохлось
- Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
- Аля Кудряшева – Молитва
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
