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:
- Book Second [School-Time Continued] by William Wordsworth
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 72: O, lest the world should task you to recite by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот советской России враги. С каждым боритесь, пока не погиб (РОСТА № 179)
- In the Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
- A slant of sun on dull brown walls, by Stephen Crane
- A Welcome by William Browne
- Robert Burns: The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness:
- Ballade Of Queen Anne poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Father’s Day by Satish Verma
- Blessings On Children by William Gilmore Simms
- Demeter And Persephone poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Memory poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Наталья Шевченко – Он не в себе
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
- Юнна Мориц – Балтийское лето
- Юнна Мориц – Астры
- Юнна Мориц – Античная картина
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Твой знак пред жизнью
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Тополь
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ткач
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Светлая заутреня
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Стучись, упорствуя, Кирка
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Средь бега дней моих порой
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Перевал
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Скрябина
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Александра Цатуриана
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отчаяние
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Осенняя песня
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Одиночество
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Новогоднее видение
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Ночью
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.