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:
- Last Instructions to a Painter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride by Rabindranath Tagore
- Stray Pleasures by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Набоков – К Родине
- Гавриил Державин – Жан Расин. Рассказ Терамена
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 2. Old Yew, which graspest at the sto poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
- Ирина Гурина – Как появляются листочки
- The Laird Of Waristoun poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Олег Бундур – Яблоко
- Pomona by William Morris
- Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- A Blockhead poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Понедельник – субботник
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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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.