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:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Farewell to the Highlands by Robert Burns
- My Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
- My Boy Jack by Rudyard Kipling
- at Weeping Face. by Walt Whitman
- Степан Щипачев – Голос
- To Emily Dickinson by Yvor Winters
- In A Vacant House by Philip Levine
- Great are the Myths. by Walt Whitman
- I Thought Of You by Sara Teasdale
- Sumter In Ruins by William Gilmore Simms
- A REQUEST TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Британишский – A за Уралом – сгустки городов
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.