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:
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Irish Love Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Юлиан Анисимов – Стихи мои, нежные гости
- Sestina: Altaforte poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Harvest Bow by Seamus Heaney
- Анатолий Жигулин – Не надо бояться памяти
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вы с Музой свадьбу золотую
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (3) by William Cowper
- Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
- The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
- Какой ты сегодня взволнованный
- Love and Wine by William Wycherley
- Виолетта Бережная – Много у меня друзей
- The Singer
- St Ives by Roald Dahl
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.