A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
We can look into the stove tonight
as into a mirror, yes,
the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core
the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes.
I know inside my eyelids
and underneath my skin
Time takes hold of us like a draft
upward, drawing at the heats
in the belly, in the brain
You told me of setting your hand
into the print of a long-dead Indian
and for a moment, I knew that hand,
that print, that rock,
the sun producing powerful dreams
A word can do this
or, as tonight, the mirror of the fire
of my mind, burning as if it could go on
burning itself, burning down
feeding on everything
till there is nothing in life
that has not fed that fire
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- John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore by William Butler Yeats
- She Was A Phantom Of Delight by William Wordsworth
- Николай Языков – Песни (Мы любим шумные пиры)
- Илья Зданевич – Экспромт
- A Song of Pitcairn’s Island by William Cullen Bryant
- The Bells Ov Alderburnham by William Barnes
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- TURNING GRAY by Satish Verma
- Федор Тютчев – К портрету государственного канцлера, князя А.М. Горчакова
- Владимир Маяковский – Типографы книги делают… (РОСТА №241)
- Repentance poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- To Morrow
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Poems in English
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012) was an American poet, essayist, and feminist.