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:
- The Sudden Light And The Trees by Stephen Dunn
- Нина Воронель – Дождливый рассвет
- The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
- After Years by Ted Kooser
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 30: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought by William Shakespeare
- America To Great Britain by Washington Allston
- Николай Гумилев – Новорожденному
- King Arthur’s Tomb by William Morris
- Poem on Pastoral Poetry by Robert Burns
- Владимир Степанов – В лесу осиновом
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Марш веселых ребят
- Алексей Жемчужников – Так прочен в сердце и в мозгу
- Robert Burns: My Wife’s A Winsome Wee Thing:
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.