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
- Fish in the Unruffled Lakes by W H Auden
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- A Comparison by William Cowper
- Олег Бундур – Про любовь
- Ольга Берггольц – Наш сад
- The Owl by Ted Hughes
- World’s Sweetest Sister Of Mine by Miraj Patel
- San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
- When I heard at the Close of the Day. by Walt Whitman
- Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
- The Fall by William Barnes
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Conviction (ii) by Stevie Smith
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ulysses poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
Some external links:
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).
