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:
- Wilful Missing by Rudyard Kipling
- Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
- Sometimes by Vinko Kalinić
- Robert Burns: The Cooper O’ Cuddy:
- Madonna poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: My Hoggie:
- Inscription. by Walt Whitman
- The Castle Ruins by William Barnes
- Magpiety by Philip Levine
- Wind by Mac McGovern
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson:
- She’s Flawless by Mandy Williams
- The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: To Dr. Maxwell: On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот по борьбе с голодом отчет (Главполитпросвет №320)
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.