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:
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- Apostroph. by Walt Whitman
- I looked here by Stephen Crane
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что ж делать
- 永遠
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours. by Walt Whitman
- As if a Phantom Caress’d Me. by Walt Whitman
- Back To The Border
- Алексей Толстой – Стасюлевич и Маркевич
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Три вида
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.