A poem by Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929 – 2012)
I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting long after midnight
A few random poems:
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Say, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Гиппиус – Иначе, как стихами, говорить
- You Must n’t Swim… by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Карамзин – Раиса (Древняя баллада)
- Николай Тихонов – Даль полевая, как при Калите
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка лягушонка Джимми и ящерки Билли
- Love And Death by Sara Teasdale
- Penmaen Pool poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- A Silence poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ольга Берггольц – И вновь одна, совсем одна в дорогу
- Юлия Друнина – У моря
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.