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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лев, сраженный Человеком
- The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare
- Twelve Years by Paul Celan
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- Come, Come, Whoever You Are by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- The Morning Half-Life Blues by Marge Piercy
- The Challenge Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- honeycomb.html
- Ок Мельникова – Моя муза любитель блюза
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
- Starlight
- Song Of The Peri
- Song Of The Parao Camping Ground
- Song Of The Enfifa River
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Taj Mahomed
- Song Of Ramesram Temple Girl
- Song Of Khan Zada
- Song Of Jasoda
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- Song By Gulbaz
- Sleep
- Shivratri The Night Of Shiva While The Procession Passed At Ramesram
- Sher Afzul
- Sea Song
- Sampan Song
- Rutland Gate
- Reverie Zahir U Din
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
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.