A poem by Alan Dugan
Now his nose’s bridge is broken, one eye
will not focus and the other is a stray;
trainers whisper in his mouth while one ear
listens to itself, clenched like a fist;
generally shadowboxing in a smoky room,
his mind hides like the aching boys
who lost a contest in the Panhellenic games
and had to take the back roads home,
but someone else, his perfect youth,
laureled in newsprint and dollar bills,
triumphs forever on the great white way
to the statistical Sparta of the champs.
A few random poems:
- Sonnet II: Not At First Sight by Sir Philip Sidney
- Two Months by Rudyard Kipling
- once_was_a_singer_for_god_remembering_nekia.html
- Liberty, and Love; or, the Two Sparrows by William Somervile
- A Requisition to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Belts by Rudyard Kipling
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- Владимир Корнилов – Молодая поэзия
- Turn, O Libertad. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear: Paraphrase of Jeremiah, 15th Chap., 10th verse
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Ольга Берггольц – 27 января 1945 года
- The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
- Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.