A poem by Alan Dugan
The skin ripples over my body like moon-wooed water,
rearing to escape me. Where could it find another
animal as naked as the one it hates to cover?
Once it told me what was happening outside,
who was attacking, who caressing, and what the air
was doing to feed or freeze me. Now I wake up
dark at night, in a textureless ocean of ignorance,
or fruit bites back and water bruises like a stone.
It’s jealousy, because I look for other tools to know
with, and other armor, better girded to my wish.
So let it lie, turn off the clues or try to leave:
sewn on me seamless like those painful shirts
the body-hating saints wore, the sheath of hell
is pierced to my darkness nonetheless: what traitors
labor in my face, what hints they smuggle through
its arching guard! But even in the night it jails,
with nothing but its lies and silences to feed upon,
the jail itself can make a scenery, sing prison songs,
and set off fireworks to praise a homemade day.
A few random poems:
- Николай Карамзин – Посвящение к «Аглае»
- Inscribed on a Work of Hannah More’s by Robert Burns
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho
- To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Олег Чупров – Мама
- The Sons of Martha by Rudyard Kipling
- Наум Коржавин – О Господи! Как я хочу умереть
- Lines to a Gentleman who sent a Newspaper by Robert Burns
- Life Is Motion by Wallace Stevens
- To a Gentleman, Who Married His Cast Mistress by William Somervile
- To Mary by William Cowper
- on the edge of the seat by Raj Arumugam
- The Scarecrow by Ross D Tyler
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
- Adieu to a Soldier by Walt Whitman
- Aboard at a Ship’s Helm. by Walt Whitman
- A Woman Waits for Me. by Walt Whitman
- A Sight in Camp. by Walt Whitman
- A Paumanok Picture. by Walt Whitman
- A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. by Walt Whitman
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand. by Walt Whitman
- A Hand-Mirror. by Walt Whitman
- A Farm-Picture. by Walt Whitman
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
- The Well Of Love by Walter William Safar
- Conscience by Walter William Safar
- A Port Of Refuge Agleam With The Aura Of Love by Walter William Safar
- A poem to mankind by Walter William Safar
- A Poem Of Love by Walter William Safar
- The Huntsmen by Walter de la Mare
- The Ghost by Walter de la Mare
- Snow by Walter de la Mare
- The Mocking Fairy by Walter de la Mare
- The Keys of Morning by Walter de la Mare
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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.