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:
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 11. Calm is the morn without a sound poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Epitaph on a Henpecked Squire by Robert Burns
- Little Of Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Юлиан Анисимов – Круглогодие
- All in June by William Henry Davies
- Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly? by William Shakespeare
- After The Visit by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Собачий пир
- A Eulogy by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Степанов – Как живете? Что жуете?
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ночью
- I Heard Immanuel Singing by Vachel Lindsay
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.