A poem by Alan Dugan
“If you work a body of water and a body of woman
you can take fish out of one and children out of the other
for the two kinds of survival. The fishing is good,
both kinds are adequate in pleasures and yield,
but the hard work and the miseries are killing;
it is a good life if life is good. If not, not.
You are out in the world and in in the world,
having it both ways: it is sportive and prevenient living
combined, although you have to think about the weathers
and the hard work and the miseries are what I said.
It runs on like water, quickly, under the boat,
then slowly like the sand dunes under the house.
You survive by yourself by the one fish for a while
and then by the other afterward when you run out.
You run out a hooky life baited with good times,
and whether the catch is caught or not is a question
for those who go fishing for men or among them for things.”
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- Girl-Gladness poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
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- Couplet 10 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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- Crazy Jane On God by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet 12
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- The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore
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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
- First Anniversary poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Eyes And Tears poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Daphnis And Chloe poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Damon The Mower poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Clorinda And Damon poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Bermudas poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Blake’s Victory poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- An Epitaph poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Aliter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Poem Upon The Death Of O.C. poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, then With My Lord Whitlock, Amba poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Garden, Written after the Civil Wars poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Dialogue Between Thyrsis And Dorinda poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- A Dialogue Between The Soul And Body poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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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.