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:
- Negligence
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня из радиоспектакля “Зелёный фургон”
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- Cut by Sylvia Plath
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- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
- Новелла Матвеева – Дома без крыш
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грустная песня о Ванечке
- Такахама Кёси – Неспешно ступает
- Top Benefits of Wearing Peridot Birthstone
- A New Year’s Gift, Sent To Sir Simeon Steward by Robert Herrick
- Sir Galahad, a Christmas Mystery by William Morris
- I am your friend by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Never Give All The Heart by William Butler Yeats
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.