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:
- Кондратий Рылеев – Луна
- Яков Полонский – Одному из усталых
- Яков Полонский – Чтобы песня моя разлилась как поток
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Salut au Monde. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Young Peggy Blooms:
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig:
- The Golden Year! poem – Alfred Austin
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- Happiness by Wilfred Owen
- Валерий Брюсов – Это – не надежда и не вера
- The gypsy song by Sunil Sharma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Ленинградская блокада
- Absence by Walter Savage Landor
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.