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:
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Impresa by Satish Verma
- Шекспир – Чтобы стихи, рожденные когда-то – Сонет 38
- Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
- The Handsome Heart poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Помните
- They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- Валерий Брюсов – Две вазы
- Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Whose beer is that? A Poem about Beer.
- Reverie Ofmahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Create Wealth With Creative Thinking
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.