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:
- Love Gregor; Or, The Lass Of Lochroyan poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Омар Хайям – Мы больше в этот мир вовек не попадем
- On A Seven Day Diary
- William Gilmore Simms – William Gilmore Simms
- Вера Полозкова – Гонево
- Алексей Плещеев – Цветок
- He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes by William Butler Yeats
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Богач
- Владимир Маяковский – Севастопольский корреспондент “Матен” сообщает… (РОСТА №507)
- Sonnet (VIII) : Some left crown , some left land and some into exile by Neelam Sinha
- Низами Гянджеви – Розу пологом колючим
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Алексей Плещеев – Ответ
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.