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:
- Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- The Gardener XXII: When She Passed by Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Языков – А. В. Киреевой (Тогда как сердцем мы лелеем)
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Mafeking poem – Alfred Austin
- The Widow’s House by William Barnes
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Новелла Матвеева – Мне кажется
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Death-Day Recalled by Thomas Hardy
- Алексей Толстой – Три побоища
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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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.