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:
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- Sonnet To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- The Geography of the House by W H Auden
- A Death Song by William Morris
- The Hands That Hang Down
- At Shelley’s House At Lerici poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Нечеловеческой силы требовала война… (Главполитпросвет №285)
- The Results Of Thought by William Butler Yeats
- The River Has Its Memories by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Gardener XL: An Unbelieving Smile by Rabindranath Tagore
- Василий Тредиаковский – Невозможно быть довольным
- Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
- Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.