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 Winter’s Tale by Sylvia Plath
- Any Wife To Any Husband by Robert Browning
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Field Sports by William Somervile
- Robert Burns: Remorseful Apology:
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
- Валерий Брюсов – После сенокоса
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
- The Change by Tony Hoagland
- The Prioress’s Tale [from Chaucer] by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – А весна наступает все же
- Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot
- Heaven–Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
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
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый из пяти
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- Владимир Маяковский – Переворот в Германии (Роста №42)
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- Владимир Маяковский – Пахали сохой — запашем трактором (Главполитпросвет №42)
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьские частушки
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрь 1917–1926
- Владимир Маяковский – Офицер! Смотри на эту саблю (РОСТА)
- Владимир Маяковский – Ода революции
- Владимир Маяковский – Общее руководство для начинающих подхалим
- Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
- Облако в штанах – Владимир Маяковский: читать поэму онлайн, текст стихотворения полностью – Стихи Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как у Керзона с обедом разрасталась аппетитов зона
- Владимир Маяковский – О том, как некие сектантцы зовут рабочего на танцы
- Владимир Маяковский – О патриархе Тихоне
- Владимир Маяковский – О дряни
- Владимир Маяковский – О чем в наступающем думаем году мы
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
Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.