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:
- Heaven, an envious home by Mahak Raithatha S
 - On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho
 - Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker by Sylvia Plath
 - Sonnet 95: How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame by William Shakespeare
 - In Memoriam A. H. H.: 54. Oh, yet we Trust that somehow Goo poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - There was a Child went Forth. by Walt Whitman
 - Above the Battle’s Front by Vachel Lindsay
 - Robert Burns: Sappho Redivivus: Fragment
 - Extracts From An Opera poem – John Keats poems
 - Apologize by Miraj Patel
 - After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant
 - A Noun Sentence by Mahmoud Darwish
 - The End of the Day poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Summary History of Lord Clive by William Topaz McGonagall
 - Robert Burns: To A Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
 
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
- To Sleep poem – John Keats poems
 - To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
 - To My Brothers poem – John Keats poems
 - To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
 - To Mrs Reynolds’ Cat poem – John Keats poems
 - To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - To Hope poem – John Keats poems
 - To Homer poem – John Keats poems
 - To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
 - To G.A.W. poem – John Keats poems
 - To Fanny poem – John Keats poems
 - To Byron poem – John Keats poems
 - To Autumn poem – John Keats poems
 - To Ailsa Rock poem – John Keats poems
 - To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
 - To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems
 - To poem – John Keats poems
 - This Living Hand poem – John Keats poems
 - Think Of It Not, Sweet One poem – John Keats poems
 - The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
 
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.