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 – Память (Всей земною горечью и болью)
- Николай Карамзин – Стихи на день рождения А. А. Плещеевой 14 октября
- The Teak Forest
- Вероника Тушнова – Утро (Вся ночь без сна)
- Ways to Make Money Online Easily for Free – 4 Important Tips to Make Money Online
- A Maiden by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Проверь, товарищ, правильность факта
- When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer. by Walt Whitman
- Olney Hymn 64: Praise For Faith by William Cowper
- On The Bus
- The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends by William Butler Yeats
- Song For A Summer’s Day by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Тамара и демон
- Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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.