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:
- Lover’s Gifts LVIII: Things Throng and Laugh by Rabindranath Tagore
- Magpiety by Philip Levine
- The Bald-Pated Welshman and the Fly by William Somervile
- Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- The Last Whisper by Nizar Sartawi
- Charms by William Henry Davies
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Late September poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Rice Was Under Water
- As the Time Draws Nigh. by Walt Whitman
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Arms And The Boy by Wilfred Owen
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
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.