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:
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- A Human Being Needs Strong Tea
- The Gardener LXXVI: The Fair Was On by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gardener XLII: O Mad, Superbly Drunk by Rabindranath Tagore
- Germs. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Голос Красной площади
- The Upas Tree poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Солоухин – Вдоль берегов Болгарии прошли мы
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Лягушонка
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- The Garden of Janus poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- Иида Дакоцу – Синтоистское святилище у подножия горы в Одани
- Light poem – John Milton poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Мир однолик, но двойственна природа
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.