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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Анна Ахматова в 1941 году в Ленинграде
- Einstein Defining Special Relativity poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Poetry by Marianne Moore
- Джон Китс – Девчонка из Девона
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]:
- French Revolution, The (excerpt) by William Blake
- Sonnet IX by William Shakespeare
- Джон Донн – Ничто
- Love’s Divinest Power by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Acknowledgment. by Sidney Lanier
- Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
- Николай Заболоцкий – Птичий двор
- Brink Of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- From Paumanok Starting. by Walt Whitman
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.