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:
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Нe называй меня поэтом)
- Night Ray by Paul Celan
- With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling
- Portals. by Walt Whitman
- Life-companion by Shailendra Chauhan
- Walls at Drogheda by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На берегу
- Алишер Навои – Осрамился я
- Grey eyed Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong
- Southern Sunrise 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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.