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:
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Going for the Cows. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Ольга Берггольц – Беатриче (строгая любовь)
- To The Unattainable
- Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
- Владимир Маяковский – Солдаты самодержавной армии мясниками бывали… (РОСТА №146)
- Robert Burns: Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington:
- Hey, the Dusty Miller (Song) by Robert Burns
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Запретный плод
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Корнилов – Сорок лет спустя
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- Robert Burns: The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad
- Elegy on Willie Nicol’s Mare by Robert Burns
- Степан Щипачев – Шар земной
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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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.