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:
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Two Wings by Ricardo Sternberg
- In The Arc Of Your Mallet by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Silence by Preeth Nambiar
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- Melville And Coghill – The Place Of The Little Hand poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Федор Сологуб – Выйди в поле полночное
- Euclid by Vachel Lindsay
- Drinking While Driving by Raymond Carver
- The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Orlando Furioso Canto 14 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Ballade of a Special Edition poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Друнина – Бежала от морозов, вот беда
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
- 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
- The Old Maids Story
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.