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
- An Ode to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- A Wild Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- May Morning by Stephen Vincent Benet
- In Midnight Sleep. by Walt Whitman
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Наши неприятности
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Erasing Amyloo by Russell Edson
- Between Two Moments by Nizar Sartawi
- A Night-Piece by William Wordsworth
- Flying Wishes by Osman cisse Hanif
- Наталья Шевченко – Привилегия
- Вероника Тушнова – В чем отказала я тебе
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
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).
