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:
- To A Young Lady Who Had Been Reproached For Taking Long Walks In The Country by William Wordsworth
- There Are A Hundred Kinds Of Prayer (Quatrain in Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- Memory by William Butler Yeats
- The Trout poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hey! Mr.Pothole by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
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- Ballade Of The Voyage To Cythera poem – Andrew Lang poems
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- The Warning by Robert Creeley
- Зинаида Александрова – Карманный фонарик
- To Robert Louis Stevenson poem – Alfred Austin
- For Mêng Hao-jan by Wang Wei
- Atalanta’s Race by William Morris
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.