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
A few random poems:
- Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre by William Alexander
- Thistles by Ted Hughes
- Алексей Толстой – Ты не спрашивай, не распытывай
- Boat Song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’ by Robert Burns
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” I – Grave-Digger’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Late Leaves by Walter Savage Landor
- Владимир Высоцкий – Куплеты нечистой силы
- Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis poem – John Keats poems
- I’ve dreamt of dreaming ’bout you by Vinko Kalinić
- Владимир Высоцкий – Купола
- Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math by Robert Burns
- Life Of a Broke Person by Russell James
- Excerpt – “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Roald Dahl
- Джон Китс – Четыре разных времени в году
- Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment by William Butler Yeats
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.