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:
- A Zong by William Barnes
- He Has Lived In Many Houses by Thomas Lux
- At a Dinner Party poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь материальную базу
- Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
- First Anniversary poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не бывает кораблей без названия
- Ka ‘Ba poem – Amiri Baraka poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hope, Like The Short-lived Ray That Gleams Awhile by William Cowper
- The Bear, The Fire, And The Snow by Shel Silverstein
- Praying Hurriedly by Satish Verma
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимназист или строитель
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
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
- Как папа женился
- К той, что названа Кариной
- Как Лера чудо искала
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Как на Масляной неделе
- К 8-му марта
- К нам приходит в день февральский снежною тропой
- Из головы у меня не выходишь
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
- Иван Варавва – Жаворонок
- Иван Варавва – В закубанском лесу
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- Иван Варавва – Раскинет объятия поле
- Иван Варавва – Соловей на веточке
- Иван Варавва – Кубань
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Иван Варавва – На окраине села
- Иван Мятлев – Соловей
- Иван Мятлев – Старушка
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
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.
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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.