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 – Россия — единое советское хозяйство (РОСТА № 280)
- Mum and children in the street by Raj Arumugam
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw:
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
- Федор Сологуб – Скоро солнце встанет
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
- Infant Sorrow by William Blake
- Love’s Harvest poem – Alfred Austin
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robin Hood And The Monk poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Villion’s Ballade Of Good Counsel, To His Friends Of Evil Life poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Come After Jinny by Shel Silverstein
- A Soldier’s Reprieve by William Topaz McGonagall
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.