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
15 random poems
- As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Robert Burns: Hey, Ca’ Thro’ – Boat song:
- Карие глазки, длинные ноги
- Владимир Набоков – Какое сделал я дурное дело
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point by Siegfried Sassoon
- On the Threshold poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Michael Robartes And The Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Снег скрипел подо мной
- And the days are not full enough poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
- 1991-II by Wendell Berry
- Ок Мельникова – Плацкарт-блюз
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).
