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:
- A General Summary by Rudyard Kipling
- Иван Мятлев – Соловей
- Eyesight poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 44: If the dull substance of my flesh were thought by William Shakespeare
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- Юрий Коринец – Листопад
- Robert Burns: The Keekin’-Glass:
- The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: La Pucelle by T. Wignesan.
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- Robert Burns: The Weary Pund O’ Tow:
- Олег Бундур – Не верится
- Олег Сердобольский – Воробышек и крошки
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.