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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты для издательства “Сегодняшний лубок” (Плакаты)
- Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
- Christopher Found poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
- In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
- Олег Бундур – Чем пахнет мама
- The Queen’s Marie poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка о слухах
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мажорный светофор, трёхцветье, трио
- Robert Burns: Bannocks O’ Bear Meal:
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.