A poem by Alan Dugan
I know but will not tell
you, Aunt Irene, why there
are soap suds in the whiskey:
Uncle Robert had to have
A drink while shaving.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Заносы не дают железным дорогам жить… (РОСТА №838)
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Room. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- Ольга Берггольц – Феодосия
- Юлия Друнина – Чтоб человек от стужи не застыл
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- Вера Павлова – Время бежит на время
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- Scoring Highly on the Psychopathy Scale by P.J.Reed
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вчера, о смерти размышляя
- In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Владимир Луговской – Дорога
- Николай Заболоцкий – Начало зимы
- I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson by Wilfred Owen
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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.