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:
- Олег Григорьев – Я сам себя в пальто одел
- The Hawthorn Tree by Siegfried Sassoon
- You Are One For Whom Ma Heart Really Cares by Miraj Patel
- The Flower of Mending by Vachel Lindsay
- Жан Расин – Решенье принято, час перемены пробил
- Looks A-Know’d Avore by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Nature’s Law – A Poem: Humbly inscribed to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
- Юлия Друнина – Бережем тех, кого любим
- Chungnan by Wang Wei
- Harp Song of the Dane Women by Rudyard Kipling
- An Abandoned Factory, Detroit by Philip Levine
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- Алексей Толстой – Сижу да гляжу я всe, братцы, вон в эту сторонку
- Claïs by Sappho
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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.