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:
- Федор Сологуб – Я иду от дома к дому
- Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun. by Walt Whitman
- Fish in the Unruffled Lakes by W H Auden
- By Garpal Stream by Stanley Wilkin
- blessing for sound health by matthew scott harris
- Владимир Маяковский – Чем отличается Красная Армия от царской?.. (РОСТА №559)
- A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy
- Альфред Теннисон – Morte d’Arthur
- Robert Burns: To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N: On her Principles of Liberty and Equality.
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Такахама Кёси – Мох зеленый примят
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- The Buried Train by Robert Bly
- Владимир Маяковский – Два не совсем обычных случая
- Валерий Брюсов – Из детской книжки
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
- Dublinesque by Philip Larkin
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Days by Philip Larkin
- Cut Grass by Philip Larkin
- Counting by Philip Larkin
- Continuing To Live by Philip Larkin
- Church Going by Philip Larkin
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Best Society by Philip Larkin
- Aubade by Philip Larkin
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Arrival by Philip Larkin
- Annus Mirabilis by Philip Larkin
- An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin
- Ambulances by Philip Larkin
- A Study Of Reading Habits by Philip Larkin
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Wisteria by Philip Levine
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
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.