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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт
- Overnight at the Riverside Tower by Tu Fu
- Ольга Ермолаева – Я так же, как ты, от стыда опускаю ресницы
- The Neäme Letters by William Barnes
- The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner by William Butler Yeats
- A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
- Нина Воронель – Не слишком ли ты многого
- On The New Forcers Of Conscience Under The Long Parliament poem – John Milton poems
- Иван Бунин – Апрель
- Idylls of the King: The Marriage of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
- Love Poem to My Husband of Thirty-one Years by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Переселение
- Николай Карамзин – Куплеты из одной сельской комедии, игранной благородными любителями театра
- Алексей Жемчужников – Письмо к юноше о ничтожности
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
- Occupy the Wall Street by Sunil Sharma
- Morale by Sunil Sharma
- Finding freedom from invisible bonds by Sunil Sharma
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- Afternoon song by Sunil Sharma
- A daily prayer by a kid by Sunil Sharma
- A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- The Magician by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- Sunday Morning by Susan King Saunders
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- Romantic Hour by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- Protest poem by Susan King Saunders
- Od’d(ode) to Whitey Bulger by Susan King Saunders
- Michelle Obama Tribute by Susan King Saunders
- Little Girl Dancing by Susan King Saunders
- Independent at Birth by Suuk Simon Subinimah
- I am not ashamed of myself by Swami Aaron Thomas
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.