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:
- The Taste of Morning by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Return From Business poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Развалины
- Gadara, A.D. 31 by John Oxenham
- Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- Robert Burns: On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat : Belonging to the same Laird [not quite so wise as Solomon].
- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Все на фронт добровольцами! Пока… (РОСТА)
- May 19th – the Young Pioneers Day
- Ольга Берггольц – Я говорю
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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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.