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:
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- His Poetry His Pillar by Robert Herrick
- Омар Хайям – Из края в край мы держим к смерти путь
- A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Book Review: A Dictionary Of Indian English Litterateurs: 1794-2010
- Омар Хайям – О доколе ты по свету будешь кружить
- The Indian Upon God by William Butler Yeats
- Наум Коржавин – Осень в Караганде
- To a Commencement of Scoundrels by Samuel Hazo
- The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Тихонов – Гулливер играет в карты
- Владимир Корнилов – Вечер Гарри Каспарова в Политехническом
- Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli
- Владимир Британишский – Первая послевоенная осень
- Владимир Маяковский – Радуются ли империалисты-победители? (Главполитпросвет №335)
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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.