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:
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- To Gnedich poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Огарев – Смутные мгновенья
- Fragment of Song—“My Jean!” by Robert Burns
- Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
- Валерий Брюсов – Из песен Мальдуна
- Silent consolation by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- The Prophet poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Olney Hymn 67: Longing To Be With Christ by William Cowper
- Ulster by Rudyard Kipling
- A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book, beginning thus:— “Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea.” by Abraham Cowley
- A Narrow Girdle Of Rough Stones And Crags, by William Wordsworth
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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.