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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Sonnet 108: What’s in the brain that ink may character by William Shakespeare
- For Him I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- Олег Бундур – На высоком берегу
- Владимир Маяковский – Чем отличается Красная Армия от царской?.. (РОСТА №559)
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Николай Тихонов – Инд
- On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Про королевское шествие
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Lyonesse
- Pequeña niña mía by Mara Romero Torres
- Follies of War by Michael Levy
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.