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:
- Oh, Is It Love? poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—A Health to them that’s awa by Robert Burns
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- Prayer—O Thou Dread Power by Robert Burns
- Listening poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Sonnet III by William Shakespeare
- For Hans Carossa by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Константин Ваншенкин – Ехал я в штабном автомобиле
- Are You Content? by William Butler Yeats
- Émigrés by Anna Barkova
- Владимир Корнилов – Военный оркестр
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Sick Stockrider
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.