A poem by Alan Dugan
The river brought down
dead horses, dead men
and military debris,
indicative of war
or official acts upstream,
but it went by, it all
goes by, that is the thing
about the river. Then
a soldier on a log
went by. He seemed drunk
and we asked him Why
had he and this junk
come down to us so
from the past upstream.
”Friends,” he said, ”the great
Battle of Granicus
has just been won
by all of the Greeks except
the Lacedaemonians and
myself: this is a joke
between me and a man
named Alexander, whom
all of you ba-bas
will hear of as a god.”
A few random poems:
- Riposte to the Bard: Sonnet 130 remade in my lady’s image by Neil Outar
- Ольга Седакова – И меня удивило
- From you have I been absent in the spring… (Sonnet 98) by William Shakespeare
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
- Владимир Маяковский – Повествование это о странствии эсера вокруг света (Красный перец)
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- When Day Is Done by Rabindranath Tagore
- Vaishnavi Prakash – Vaishnavi Prakash
- Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
- The Peacock by William Butler Yeats
- Unforgotten
- Sonnet CXIX by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Корнилов – Жара
- Степан Щипачев – Ладонь
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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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.