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:
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Николай Гумилев – О, если я весь мир постиг
- Ок Мельникова – Не горим, не светим
- Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tests. by Walt Whitman
- Avenue In Savernake Forest by William Lisle Bowles
- Огюст Барбье – Аллегри
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- An Evening Song. by Sidney Lanier
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- Николай Некрасов – В тоске по юности моей
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- Владимир Британишский – История, поколобродив тут
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.