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:
- On Carpaccio’s Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Стефан Малларме – В идоложертвенном ликующем костре
- Константин Бальмонт – Морская пани
- Ode To A Nightingale poem – John Keats poems
- Thanksgiving Day by Will McKendree Carleton
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- No LOVE by venkatesh.valusa
- Louisa: After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion by William Wordsworth
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- Power Of Music by William Wordsworth
- Decalogue poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Mathematical Problem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти О.Н. Чюминой
- Яков Полонский – Белая ночь
- Жан Расин – Когда мы вышли из Трезенских врат
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.