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.

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- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
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- Кондратий Рылеев – Оставь меня, Я здесь молю
- Владимир Высоцкий – Однако, втягивать живот
- Even Because by Ralph Angel
- Николай Глазков – Без поражений нет побед
- Excerpt from “What’s O’Clock” poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Isaiah LXIII by Phillis Wheatley
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- Linoz Isidoz poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Alba poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Олег Григорьев – Не свались в колодец, Ольга
- The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
- Sweet Briars of the Stairways by Vachel Lindsay
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 Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.