That afternoon the dream of the toads
rang through the elms by Little River
and affected the thoughts of men,
though they were not conscious that
they heard it.–Henry Thoreau
The dream of toads: we rarely
credit what we consider lesser
life with emotions big as ours,
but we are easily distracted,
abstracted. People sit nibbling
before television’s flicker watching
ghosts chase balls and each other
while the skunk is out risking grisly
death to cross the highway to mate;
while the fox scales the wire fence
where it knows the shotgun lurks
to taste the sweet blood of a hen.
Birds are greedy little bombs
bursting to give voice to appetite.
I had a cat who died of love.
Dogs trail their masters across con-
tinents. We are far too busy
to be starkly simple in passion.
We will never dream the intense
wet spring lust of the toads.
End of the poem
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- O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Огарев – В прогулке поздней видел я
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: The Farewell:
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Grace by Sappho
- The Bankrupt Peace-Maker by Vachel Lindsay
- March poem – A. E. Housman
- The Reformers by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- Николай Заболоцкий – Офорт
- Abbey Assaroe by William Allingham
- Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
- Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий корреспондент
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).