A poem by Alan Dugan
The trees in time
have something else to do
besides their treeing. What is it.
I’m a starving to death
man myself, and thirsty, thirsty
by their fountains but I cannot drink
their mud and sunlight to be whole.
I do not understand these presences
that drink for months
in the dirt, eat light,
and then fast dry in the cold.
They stand it out somehow,
and how, the Botanists will tell me.
It is the “something else” that bothers
me, so I often go back to the forests.
A few random poems:
- Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan
- Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
- My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
- Heaven–Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- Эмиль Верхарн – Здравствуй, подруга
- Михаил Кузмин – Уж не слышен конский топот
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Михаил Кузмин – Зеленая птичка
- Владимир Маяковский – Головотяпам
- Muse poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Заболоцкий – Утренняя песня
- My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
- Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
- The Vain Question
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
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.