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 Child’s Greäve by William Barnes
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- The Caucas poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- Яков Полонский – Ночная дума
- Hound Voice by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Языков – Дева ночи
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что ж делать
- At The End Of The Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Baby’s World by Rabindranath Tagore
- Miserimus
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Праздник на биваке
- Николай Языков – Вот яблоки так яблоки, на славу
- Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge
- Shut Not Your Doors, &c. by Walt Whitman
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.