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 Arrivals by Sharon Olds
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- The First Lover
- Oh could my Mind
- Владимир Корнилов – Обещание
- O Tan-faced Prairie Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Que Sera Sera poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Topiary poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- Orlando Furioso Canto 2 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
- The Hosting Of The Sidhe by William Butler Yeats
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- Brasilia by Sylvia Plath
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
- Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony by Shel Silverstein
- Listen To The Mustn’ts by Shel Silverstein
- Lemmebesomethin’ by Shel Silverstein
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- In The Hills Of Shiloh by Shel Silverstein
- In Search Of Cinderella by Shel Silverstein
- I’m So Good That I Don’t Have To Brag by Shel Silverstein
- I’m My Own Grandpa by Shel Silverstein
- If The World Was Crazy by Shel Silverstein
- If I Had A Brontosaurus by Shel Silverstein
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
- Hug O’War by Shel Silverstein
- Hippo’s Hope by Shel Silverstein
- Hector The Collector by Shel Silverstein
- Hard To Please by Shel Silverstein
- Handy Man by Shel Silverstein
- Hamlet As Told On The Street by Shel Silverstein
- For What She Had Done by Shel Silverstein
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.