A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
My swirling wants. Your frozen lips.
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Themes, written under duress.
Emptiness of the notations.
They gave me a drug that slowed the healing of wounds.
I want you to see this before I leave:
the experience of repetition as death
the failure of criticism to locate the pain
the poster in the bus that said:
my bleeding is under control
A red plant in a cemetary of plastic wreaths.
A last attempt: the language is a dialect called metaphor.
These images go unglossed: hair, glacier, flashlight.
When I think of a landscape I am thinking of a time.
When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
I could say: those mountains have a meaning
but further than that I could not say.
To do something very common, in my own way.
A few random poems:
- A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Костров – Что может знать чужак
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вращаем Землю
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда вдали от суеты всемирной
- Владимир Маяковский – Серые! К вам орем вниз мы… (РОСТА №313)
- Ages and Ages, Returning at Intervals. by Walt Whitman
- Calm is all Nature as a Resting Wheel. by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- Beans Taste Fine by Shel Silverstein
- I Prefer the Gorgeous Freedom poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Upas Tree poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение это
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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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
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.