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:
- Sweet Briars of the Stairways by Vachel Lindsay
- When I heard at the Close of the Day. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Бундур – Дрова
- Me, The Wind and the Old Shadow by Walter William Safar
- Darkness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- On the Idle Hill of Summer by A. E. Housman
- Николай Гумилев – На далекой звезде Венере
- Strike, Churl poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Not Here by Rumi
- Sonnet 04
- A High-Toned Old Christian Woman by Wallace Stevens
- Time Out To Cry by Shannen Wrass
- Михаил Лермонтов – Булевар
- Ireland. by Sidney Lanier
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
- Consider This And In Our Time by W H Auden
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue by W H Auden
- Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
- Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
- Canzone by W H Auden
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Base Words Are Uttered by W H Auden
- Autumn Song by W H Auden
- August 1968 by W H Auden
- Atlantis by W H Auden
- As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden
- As We Like It by W H Auden
- As the poets have mournfully sung by W H Auden
- Are You There? by W H Auden
- After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics by W. H. Auden
- Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- A New Year Greeting by W H Auden
- Continual Conversation With A Silent Man by Wallace Stevens
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.