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:
- Sonnet 25: Let those who are in favour with their stars by William Shakespeare
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- My Rival by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Что сделать, чтоб Всероссийский съезд Советов… (РОСТА №662)
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Дом в цветах
- The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing by William Wordsworth
- Eye By Eye by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Rolling Mills by Michael McGovern
- The Mead A-Mow’d by William Barnes
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Алексей Жемчужников – В Европе
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Fiction Tips – The Snare of Coincidence
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-flash-reverses-time.html
- que-sera-sera.html
- power-of-thought.html
- phantasm.html
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- old-boy.html
- lost_love_is_never_lost.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- holiday_letter_for_a_poet_gone_to_war.html
- gratitudes_of_a_dozen_roses.html
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- einstein-defining-special-relativity.html
- cell-mate.html
- calling-the-spirits.html
- angel_of_christmas_love_shining_bright.html
- angel_of_better_days_to_come.html
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- a-tempest-in-a-teacup.html
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Erin! The Tear and the Smile in Thine Eyes by Thomas Moore
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.