A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
Aunt Jennifer’s tigers prance across a screen,
Bright topaz denizens of a world of green.
They do not fear the men beneath the tree;
They pace in sleek chivalric certainty.
Aunt Jennifer’s fingers fluttering through her wool
Find even the ivory needle hard to pull.
The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand.
When Aunt is dead, her terrified hands will lie
Still ringed with ordeals she was mastered by.
The tigers in the panel that she made
Will go on prancing, proud and unafraid.
A few random poems:
- The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara
- I Dream of my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
- Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need by William Shakespeare
- Ольга Седакова – Вениамин
- Sonnet Ii
- Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
- A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning
- Ок Мельникова – Тоской тома йорка
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- Вера Звягинцева – Летите, летите зелёные долы
- At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
- Joker of the Pack by Shekhar Srinivasan
- Николай Языков – Песни (Мы любим шумные пиры)
- Николай Языков – А. В. Киреевой (Тогда как сердцем мы лелеем)
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.