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
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Falling Action by Ruth Madievsky
- Villanelle: Oscar Victorius by T. Wignesan
- Федор Сологуб – Я иду от дома к дому
- Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
- Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про первые ряды
- From The Greek Of Julianus by William Cowper
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. Dark Glasses. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- Once A Great Love by Yehuda Amichai
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Валерий Брюсов – Филлида
- Gubbinal by Wallace Stevens
- I Strove with None by Walter Savage Landor
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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).
