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:
- Николай Гумилев – На берегу моря
- Robert Burns: Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me:
- Николай Карамзин – Господину Дмитриеву на болезнь его (Болезнь есть часть живущих в мире)
- Robert Burns: Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway:
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В дальний путь идут корабли
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Николай Языков – Валдайский узник
- Phantom by Samuel Coleridge
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
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- Николай Заболоцкий – Меркнут знаки зодиака
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- Their Sex Life poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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.