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:
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew
- Epilogue by Robert Lowell
- Dreams poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Павлова – Вергилий в предсмертном бреду
- Presences by William Butler Yeats
- Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Burns: A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock: On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery.
- F?sulan Idyl by Walter Savage Landor
- Владимир Орлов – Цветное молоко
- Futility by Wilfred Owen
- John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore by William Butler Yeats
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Paralytic by Sylvia Plath
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
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый из пяти
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьские частушки
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
- Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
- Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
- Владимир Маяковский – Общее руководство для начинающих подхалим
- Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
- Облако в штанах – Владимир Маяковский: читать поэму онлайн, текст стихотворения полностью – Стихи Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как у Керзона с обедом разрасталась аппетитов зона
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
- Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- Владимир Маяковский – О чем в наступающем думаем году мы
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.