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 Widow’s House by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: Ballads on Mr. Heron’s Election, 1795: Second-Election Day
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens
- It’s Dark in Here by Shel Silverstein
- Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Маяковский – Посмотрим сами, покажем им
- Soul Receives From Soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Маленькой Женни
- Николай Гумилев – Норвежские горы
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
- English Poetry. Francis Turner Palgrave. A Churchyard in Oxfordshire. Фрэнсис Тернер Палгрев.
- Memoirs Of A Spinach-Picker by Sylvia Plath
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
- The Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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.