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:
- Reply to an Announcement by J. Rankine by Robert Burns
- Last Words by Sylvia Plath
- Ольга Берггольц – Не может быть, чтоб жили мы напрасно
- Виктор Колесников – Вороний мат во все концы
- Sonnet 3: Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи, за труд!.. (Главполитпросвет №146)
- Kotri By The River
- Indian Dancer by Sarojini Naidu
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: The Birks Of Aberfeldy:
- By The Side Of The Grave Some Years After by William Wordsworth
- William Allingham – William Allingham
- The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Mourning poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.