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:
- CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA by Abraham Cowley
- The Discovery of the Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- English Poetry. Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Triumph of Time. Алджернон Чарльз Суинбёрн.
- Not Speaking Of The Way poem – Yosano Akiko poems | Poetry Monster
- Proclamation Without Pretension by Tristan Tzara
- Morning Poem #40 by Wanda Phipps
- Study of an Elevation, In Indian Ink by Rudyard Kipling
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
- “Wishing to float” by Seema Gupta
- Ye Mariners of England by Thomas Campbell
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – О друге я мечтал, но им не стал никто
- Виталий Сивяков – Крещенье
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.