A poem by Alan Dugan
I live inside of a machine
or machines. Every time one
goes off another starts. Why
don’t I go outside and sleep
on the ground. It is because
I’m scared of the open night
and stars looking down at me
as God’s eyes, full of questions;
and when I do sleep out alone
I wake up soaking wet
with the dew-fall and am
being snuffed at by a female fox
who stinks from being skunked.
Also there are carrion insects
climbing my private parts. Therefore
I would find shelter in houses,
rented or owned. Anything that money
can build or buy is better than
the nothing of the sky at night,
the stars being the visible past.
A few random poems:
- What the Miner in the Desert Said by Vachel Lindsay
- The Best Blues Songs Ever
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XL poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
- Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
- I Swear by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
- Юлия Друнина – Хорошо молодое лицо
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Аля Кудряшева – Двадцать перышек за плечами
- An Encounter by Robert Frost
- Владимир Корнилов – Музыка для себя
- Ирина Гурина – Как пчёлы чуть не поссорились
- Dalliance of the Eagles, The. by Walt Whitman
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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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.