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:
- Love in Twilight by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владимир Маяковский – Застрельщики
- Наум Коржавин – Не верь, что ты поэта шире
- The Poisoned Present
- Николай Заболоцкий – Мир однолик, но двойственна природа
- Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb’st the Sky by William Wordsworth
- Жан де Лафонтен – Война Крыс и Ласок
- Loving In Truth, And Fain In Verse My Love To Show by Sir Philip Sidney
- Валерий Брюсов – Лед и уголь
- Алексей Жемчужников – Памятник Пушкину
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room by William Wordsworth
- Raise the head, child by Vinko Kalinić
- Happiness by Stevie Smith
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
- Shall I like An Eternal World by Nithin Purple
- Sea World by Nin Andrews
- For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Red Roses by Nithin Purple
- Rainy Day by Nikhil Jain
- “Flight to the Moon” by Nina Gabriel
- First Look at Mom by Nikhil Jain
- The Poet’s Grave by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Nijole Miliauskaite – Nijole Miliauskaite
- Nijole Miliauskaite – Nijole Miliauskaite
- When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly by Oliver Goldsmith
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Palms and Hearts by Olawuyi Mutiu
- Orchard by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Only in my dreams by Nina Gabriel
- On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
- On An Insight On Grecian Spring by Nithin Purple
- On An Arctic Winter by Nithin Purple
- On A World Of Imaginary & Freedom Dwell by Nithin Purple
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.