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:
- Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner:
- Олег Григорьев – Увязался М. за Ж.
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- Return From Business poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи! От сбора продналога… (Главполитпросвет №284)
- White Currants poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ива (Как придется мне покинуть свет)
- Ingrateful Beauty Threatened by Thomas Carew
- CloSe To My Heart by Nishant Deherkar
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- On The Astrologers (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Lo! Victress on the Peaks. by Walt Whitman
- Станислав Востоков – Не хочется отцу и маме
- Path by Pierre Reverdy
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
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
- A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, And Created Pleasure poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Song poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Self-Portrait poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The AntiWorlds poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Russian-American Romance poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Rubber Souls poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Modern Nature poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- My Friend’s Light poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Her Story poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Fate poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Abuses and Awards poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Arrow through the bellybutton poem
- In shadows of night
- The Snake
- 永遠
- Forever
- 歐盟
- Storm poem – André Rostant poems
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.