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:
- Bobber by Raymond Carver
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- Анатолий Жигулин – Марта, Марта! Весеннее имя
- Ballade Of A Toyokuni Colour-Print by William Ernest Henley
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение о проданной телятине
- Нина Воронель – Природа сама сочиняет стихи
- Sonet 49 by William Alexander
- On The Benefit Received By His Majesty From Sea-Bathing, In The Year 1789 by William Cowper
- Alone by Sara Teasdale
- Новелла Матвеева – Смех Фавна
- Most Sweet it is by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Седакова – Легенда шестая
- For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
- Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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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.