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:
- The Destroyers by Rudyard Kipling
- Beautiful Women. by Walt Whitman
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper by Robert Burns
- Quest for Thee by Vanessa Perkins
- Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Memo to my Spouse by Adeola Ikuomola
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Ad Quintilianum by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
- Nocturnal Vigils poem – Alfred Austin
- The Source by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Округлы и оголены
- The Language of William Dunbar
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.