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:
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Седакова – Несчастен
- Robert Burns: Scroggam, My Dearie:
- Владислав Крапивин – Когда тебя замучил враг
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий! (РОСТА №735)
- The Last Tournament poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
- A Woman Waking by Philip Levine
- Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 22. Let Erin Remember the Days of Old. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Британишский – Аркадия
- 1914 II: Safety by Rupert Brooke
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
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- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.