A poem by Alan Dugan
I know but will not tell
you, Aunt Irene, why there
are soap suds in the whiskey:
Uncle Robert had to have
A drink while shaving.

A few random poems:
- Гавриил Державин – Пчелка
- Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сказка о кривом человечке
- Федор Сваровский – Пришельцы убили всех
- Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
- The Monkey by Shel Silverstein
- Earth! my Likeness! by Walt Whitman
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid Of The In poem – John Keats poems
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- A Rajput Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Владимир Домрин – Якутия
- “From the man whom I love, though my heart I disguise,” by Tobias Smollett
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.