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:
- Олег Григорьев – Кресло рассохлось
- Song—The Birks of Aberfeldy by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- no ambition for eternity by Raj Arumugam
- Юлия Друнина – Стал холоден мой тёплый старый дом
- A Lyric to Mirth by Robert Herrick
- Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Empty Boats by Vachel Lindsay
- A Paralell Between Bowling And Preferment by William Strode
- Heroic Simile by Robert Hass
- STEPPING OUT by Satish Verma
- Ka ‘Ba poem – Amiri Baraka poems | Poems and Poetry
- I Dream’d in a Dream. by Walt Whitman
- Fields and Gardens by the River Qi by Wang Wei
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.