A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
It will not be simple, it will not take long
It will take little time, it will take all your thought
It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath
It will be short, it will not be simple
It will touch through your ribs, it will take all your heart
It will not take long, it will occupy all your thought
As a city is occupied, as a bed is occupied
It will take your flesh, it will not be simple
You are coming into us who cannot withstand you
You are coming into us who never wanted to withstand you
You are taking parts of us into places never planned
You are going far away with pieces of our lives
It will be short, it will take all your breath
It will not be simple, it will become your will

A few random poems:
- Shakespeare by Vachel Lindsay
 - How to Survive After Losing a Loved One
 - Ode to Beer, an Irish Song
 - Infant Joy by William Blake
 - was it you, mooon? by Raj Arumugam
 - With his venom by Sappho
 - Владимир Британишский – На полпути в Илимск
 - Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper
 - Ocean of Forms by Rabindranath Tagore
 - Hymn To Woden by William Lisle Bowles
 - Kore by Robert Creeley
 - Pamela Griffiths – Pamela Griffiths
 - On The Eating Of Mice by Russell Edson
 - Psalm 04 poem – John Milton poems
 - Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
 
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
- Алексей Жемчужников – Верста на старой дороге
 - Алексей Жемчужников – В Европе
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Уже давно иду я, утомленный
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Умные политики
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Ты прав
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Так прочен в сердце и в мозгу
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Столковались
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Старик
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Современному гражданину
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Сословные речи
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Сняла с меня судьба
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Себе
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Раскаяние
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Радостные куплеты
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Привет весны
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Примирение
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Прелюдия к прощальным песням
 - Алексей Жемчужников – Полевые цветы
 
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.