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:
- Михаил Ломоносов – На Сарское село августа 24 дня 1764 года
- Ок Мельникова – Если есть от кого ждать писем
- Robert Burns: Farewell Thou Stream:
- Robert Burns: Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle:
- In September poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Dream Of England poem – Alfred Austin
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The beauty of the heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Break, Break, Break poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Subjective Genocide by Marie Starr
- Boot And Saddle by Robert Browning
- Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сколько павших бойцов полегло вдоль дорог
- Portrait of a Lady by T. S. Eliot
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.