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:
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- Robert Burns: The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Здравствуй, “Юность”
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- Sonnet LXIII by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Toast
- Cascando by Samuel Beckett
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Олег Чупров – Не хочется мне славы громкой
- My Soviet Passport by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Аля Кудряшева – Когда наступает вечер
- What Place is Besieged? by Walt Whitman
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.