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:
- Unrequited Love – Why Can’t You Love Me Back?
- Константин Батюшков – На смерть И.П. Пнина
- Daryl, My Son by Ronald G. Auguste
- Human Instrument by Victoria Bukofske
- Robert Burns: Lines On Fergusson, The Poet :
- Михаил Лермонтов – А. А. Олениной (Ах! Анна Алексевна)
- The Grey Rock by William Butler Yeats
- Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Couplets on Wit poem – Alexander Pope
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Николай Карамзин – К Алине на смерть ее супруга
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- Алексей Плещеев – Когда твой кроткий, ясный взор
- Fears In Solitude by Samuel Coleridge
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.