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.
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External links
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Poems in English
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 11 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Готова молодость твоя откочевать
- Низами Гянджеви – Где путь в кумирню
- Низами Гянджеви – Газелеокая
- Низами Гянджеви – Если б радость не лучилась
- Низами Гянджеви – Другим знавала ты меня
- Низами Гянджеви – День мой благословен
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Нинель Эпатова – Настя с мамою в лесочке
- Нина Воронель – Запахи детства еще не забыты
- Нина Воронель – Юбилей в доме литераторов
- Нина Воронель – Я не хочу опять вернуться в детство
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- Нина Воронель – Высокосный год
- Нина Воронель – Вечная мерзлота
- Нина Воронель – В чаще
- Нина Воронель – Суета
- Нина Воронель – Суд современников не значит ни черта
- Нина Воронель – Снег
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Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.