A poem by Alan Dugan
My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she said,
explain the crazy times I had in bed
and quoted Freud: “Life is pain.”
“What do women want?” and “My
prosthesis does not speak French.”

A few random poems:
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For James Smith:
- Олег Григорьев – Зашли мы к Сизову с приятелем
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- A Man Young And Old: IV. The Death Of The Hare by William Butler Yeats
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- Preludes by T. S. Eliot
- To Youth by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture:
- Вера Полозкова – Или, к примеру, стоял какой-нибудь
- The Songs of the Lathes by Rudyard Kipling
- A Patch of Old Snow by Robert Frost
- The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Evening balcony by Vladimir Marku
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Огненная жертва
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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.