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:
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend by William Shakespeare
- Colbert Report: Australia by Raj Arumugam
- Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Успокоилась Франция, злобой не пышет… (РОСТА №625)
- Олег Бундур – Сорока
- The Trap by Vachel Lindsay
- “Here, where the vine and fig bask hand in hand,” poem – Alfred Austin
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заколдованный месяц
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Нe называй меня поэтом)
- Eclogue:–The ‘Lotments by William Barnes
- Николай Заболоцкий – Утренняя песня
- An Army Corps on the March. by Walt Whitman
- Don’t Light The Candles by Yahia Al-Samawy
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
- I’m So Good That I Don’t Have To Brag by Shel Silverstein
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
- INTO THE LAIR by Satish Verma
- Intimidation by Satish Verma
- In Transit by Satish Verma
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Impresa by Satish Verma
- Immaculacy by Satish Verma
- I Begin To Think by Satish Verma
- Hurting Dive by Satish Verma
- Homing by Satish Verma
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Holding On by Satish Verma
- OPTIONS by Satish Verma
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- Oblivion by Satish Verma
- O You by Satish Verma
- NIGHT RAID by Satish Verma
- Night Light by Satish Verma
- Muttering by Satish Verma
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.