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:
- The Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
- Валерий Брюсов – К портрету Лермонтова
- A bat flits by Yosa Buson
- If I Got You by Miraj Patel
- Николай Карамзин – Алина
- Dialogue Between Ghost And Priest by Sylvia Plath
- Twelve O’Clock by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чесменские трофеи
- Новелла Матвеева – Отражённым светом
- Sonnet IV: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend by William Shakespeare
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- Олег Бундур – Про чемпионов
- OFF-LIMITS by Satish Verma
- Rimer poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The High Pedestal by Shahida Latif
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.