A poem by Alan Dugan
Now his nose’s bridge is broken, one eye
will not focus and the other is a stray;
trainers whisper in his mouth while one ear
listens to itself, clenched like a fist;
generally shadowboxing in a smoky room,
his mind hides like the aching boys
who lost a contest in the Panhellenic games
and had to take the back roads home,
but someone else, his perfect youth,
laureled in newsprint and dollar bills,
triumphs forever on the great white way
to the statistical Sparta of the champs.
A few random poems:
- NIGHT RAID by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: Leezie Lindsay: Fragment
- The Room The Light and Golden Dust by Vishnu J Mohan
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Menagerie
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- In The Village Of My Ancestors by Vasko Popa
- Михаил Кузмин – Трое (Нас было трое)
- Николай Карамзин – Соломонова мудрость, или мысли, выбранные из Экклезиаста
- Василий Жуковский – Деревенский сторож в полночь
- In Transit by Satish Verma
- SURVIVAL by Satish Verma
- A Prayer to All the Dead among Mine Own People by Vachel Lindsay
- Who Is This? by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Юнна Мориц – Ручеек
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 Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
- Swing Shift Blues
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.