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:
- a_city_one_wish.html
- Near Avalon by William Morris
- Николай Карамзин – Истина
- Владимир Маяковский – Уже из-за снежных заносов прекратилось… (РОСТА №774)
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету Лермонтова
- Closed Path by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше были писатели белоручки… (Роста №52)
- The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence by W. S. Merwin
- The Lights Of New York by Sara Teasdale
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- An Imitation of Spenser by William Blake
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На берегу
- Жан Расин – Гофолия
- Олег Бундур – Деревенская история
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.