A poem by Alan Dugan
The first and last time I met
my ex-lover Anne Sexton was at
a protest poetry reading against
some anti-constitutional war in Asia
when some academic son of a bitch,
to test her reputation as a drunk,
gave her a beer glass full of wine
after our reading. She drank
it all down while staring me
full in the face and then said
“I don’t care what you think,
you know,” as if I was
her ex-what, husband, lover,
what? And just as I
was just about to say I
loved her, I was, what,
was, interrupted by my beautiful enemy
Galway Kinnell, who said to her
“Just as I was told, your eyes,
you have one blue, one green”
and there they were, the two
beautiful poets, staring at
each others’ beautiful eyes
as I drank the lees of her wine.
A few random poems:
- Нина Воронель – Вечная мерзлота
- King And No King by William Butler Yeats
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Если вы придёте в лес
- Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- Crossroads by Suchi Gaur
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- A Short View Of: The State Of Man by William Alexander
- The Thousandth Man by Rudyard Kipling
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Ольга Берггольц – Из блокнота сорок первого года
- Владимир Степанов – Галочка-считалочка
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
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- Morale by Sunil Sharma
- Finding freedom from invisible bonds by Sunil Sharma
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma
- A daily prayer by a kid by Sunil Sharma
- A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- The Magician by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- Sunday Morning by Susan King Saunders
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- Romantic Hour by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- Protest poem by Susan King Saunders
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Independent at Birth by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- I am not ashamed of myself by Swami Aaron Thomas
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.