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:
- The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay
- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- In A Letter To C. P. Esq. Ill With The Rheumatism by William Cowper
- what I want to know by Raj Arumugam
- Василий Жуковский – К ней
- Sonnet V. To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems
- A Hedge Of Rubber Trees poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Comus poem – John Milton poems
- Михаил Ломоносов – Молчите, струйки чисты
- The Ghost by Walter de la Mare
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- To the Muse poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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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.