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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Почему нет помощи от Румынии (Главполитпросвет №327)
- Green Circle by Satish Verma
- The Song Of The Kasak poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Языков – Давным-давно люблю я страстно
- Низами Гянджеви – Не горюй, ибо друг есть
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- The Symptoms of Love by William Cowper
- My Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Греч: Встреча с Батюшковым
- Омар Хайям – Лик розы освежен дыханием весны
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
- A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник
- Владимир Набоков – О чем я думаю
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.