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:
- Dog racing
- Юлия Друнина – Здесь продают билеты на Парнас
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (Когда душа изнемогала)
- Lament of the Frontier Guard poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Easter Morning poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- initial mother’s day eve by matthew scott harris
- The Cottage Hospital poem – John Betjeman poems
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- A Humble Heroine by William Topaz McGonagall
- Full Moon by Tu Fu
- the branches of pine tree by Mousumi Guha Roy
- Danse Macabre by Sylvia Plath
- Федор Сологуб – Ариадна
- The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore
- Suttee by Sarojini Naidu
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
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- By Moschus by William Cowper
- By Heraclides by William Cowper
- By Callimachus by William Cowper
- On the Burning of Lord Mansfield’s Library by William Cowper
- Boadicea. An Ode by William Cowper
- Aspirations Of The Soul After God by William Cowper
- Apology to Delia by William Cowper
- Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
- Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
- Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
- An Ode, On Reading Mr. Richardson’s History Of Sir Charles Grandison by William Cowper
- An Epitaph by William Cowper
- An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- An Epitaph 4 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- An Epitaph 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- An Epitaph 2 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.