A poem by Alan Dugan
I live inside of a machine
or machines. Every time one
goes off another starts. Why
don’t I go outside and sleep
on the ground. It is because
I’m scared of the open night
and stars looking down at me
as God’s eyes, full of questions;
and when I do sleep out alone
I wake up soaking wet
with the dew-fall and am
being snuffed at by a female fox
who stinks from being skunked.
Also there are carrion insects
climbing my private parts. Therefore
I would find shelter in houses,
rented or owned. Anything that money
can build or buy is better than
the nothing of the sky at night,
the stars being the visible past.
A few random poems:
- The Home by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- Easter Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Демьян Бедный – Весенний благостный покой
- Portrait of Rage and Age poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Полозкова – И катись бутылкой по автостраде
- Юнна Мориц – Попрыгать-поиграть
- Craigieburn Wood by Robert Burns
- Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Bridge-Guard in the Karroo by Rudyard Kipling
- Алексей Жемчужников – Я музыкальным чувством обладаю
- Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet:
- Amnesiac by Sylvia Plath
- Among Children by Philip Levine
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.