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:
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- Олег Чупров – Он впадает в смятенье
- Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho
- Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Spontaneous Me. by Walt Whitman
- Юлия Друнина – Здесь продают билеты на Парнас
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Вера Звягинцева – Летите, летите зелёные долы
- The Music Of The Rains – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
- Олег Григорьев – Папа вазу опрокинул
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- After the Battle by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Британишский – Наш учитель истории
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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.