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:
- Виктор Гусев – Октябрьский смотр
- Михаил Лермонтов – Без вас хочу сказать вам много
- Константин Бальмонт – Морская пани
- The Bull Moose
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
- Robert Burns: Monody: On a lady famed for her Caprice.
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- Self-Care for Creative Artists: 10 Reasons To Care About It
- A Net to Snare the Moonlight by Vachel Lindsay
- Ritual by Tala Bar
- Игорь Северянин – Симфония
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.