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:
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- Ольга Седакова – Вечерняя песня
- Федор Сваровский – Насрулло и Курбон
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
- Endymion: Book III poem – John Keats poems
- Grand Slam Night poem – A. D. Winans poems | Poetry Monster
- Низами Гянджеви – Ты рукой мне сжала сердце
- I Sing the Body Electric. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – И если Богу нужны гимнасты
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я счастлив, тайный яд течёт в моей крови
- Married Peäir’s Love Walk by William Barnes
- Владимир Высоцкий – Хрущёву
- The Ballad Of Moll Magee by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Гумилев – Ольге Людвиговне Кардовской
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- In The New Sun by Philip Levine
- In A Vacant House by Philip Levine
- In A Light Time by Philip Levine
- I Won, You Lost by Philip Levine
- I Sing The Body Electric by Philip Levine
- How Much Earth by Philip Levine
- House Of Silence by Philip Levine
- Holy Day by Philip Levine
- Holding On by Philip Levine
- Heaven by Philip Levine
- Green Thumb by Philip Levine
- Gin by Philip Levine
- Gangrene by Philip Levine
- For The Country by Philip Levine
- Fist by Philip Levine
- Father by Philip Levine
- Everything by Philip Levine
- Coming Close by Philip Levine
- Clouds Above The Sea by Philip Levine
- Clouds by Philip Levine
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.