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:
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- An Old Song by Rudyard Kipling
- San Francisco Night Windows by Robert Penn Warren
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
- Николай Карамзин – Гимн
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
- Николай Гумилев – Живала Ниагара
- The Princess: A Medley: Ask me no more poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Graydigger’s Home by William Stafford
- Unanswered
- Poem
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- Illusion
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.