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:
- Sunday Morning Blues poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Hoffer by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Чем пустыми мечтами себя донимать
- Игорь Северянин – Симфония
- Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
- Untimely Leave by Rabindranath Tagore
- An Invocation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Дева за клавесином
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
- Bahut Kathin Hai poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Thanatos Basileos poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Гербель – Зной
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Комета
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда вдали от суеты всемирной
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда бы
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Казалось
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Калиф и раб
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К женщине
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К точкам
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ореланна
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Она была добра
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Одно из двух
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обвинение
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обновление
- Владимир Бенедиктов – О, не играй веселых песен мне
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ну вот – всё ладится, идет всё понемногу
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ночью
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ночь близ Якац
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недолго
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не трать огня напрасных убеждений
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не надо
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.