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:
- To Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness poem – John Milton poems
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me. by Walt Whitman
- Like Truthless Dreams, So Are My Joys Expired by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Song—A Health to ane I loe dear by Robert Burns
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- Robert Burns: Wha Is That At My Bower-Door:
- plato.html
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Британишский – В болотах севера Евразии
- Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- Ольга Седакова – Плач
- Pay your last respects by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Twelve Months After by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.