A poem by Alan Dugan
My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she said,
explain the crazy times I had in bed
and quoted Freud: “Life is pain.”
“What do women want?” and “My
prosthesis does not speak French.”
A few random poems:
- Sonnet Iii
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Константин Бальмонт – Мы прячем, душим тонкой сетью лжи
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- Prairie-Grass Dividing, The. by Walt Whitman
- Essential Beauty by Philip Larkin
- The First Part: Sonnet 1 – In my first years, and prime yet not at height by William Drummond
- Наум Коржавин – Нет! Так я просто не уйду во мглу
- Lullaby of the Onion by Miguel Hernandez
- Dust by Rupert Brooke
- The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – О, не играй веселых песен мне
- Владимир Маяковский – Наврут полный короб… (Главполитпросвет №68)
- Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
- The Kingfisher poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.